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In the Japanese taste. Round club-shaped earthenware vase with wide cylindrical mouth and shaped shoulders. Cream-colored matte ground on white clay body with a black circular reserve with bird motif; white gilt reserve with architectural view and palm leaf. Circular bronze base with bracket like feet; cast oriental motifs. Corresponding domed top fitted at top with brass oil lamp fixture, to receive chimney. Electrified.
electric lamps (lighting device components)
earthenware
Japonaiserie
Orientalism
Lamp
Lamp, Electric
Earthenware
Orientalism
Japonais
Lamp, Electric
Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),
Unknown
20 x 9 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Margaret Carson Holt
1970.657
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