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Electric "Bridge Lamp" Floor Lamp

Collection Type

  • Lighting

Date

1800-1850

GUSN

GUSN-8619

Description

Rod shaft with pointed terminus with scrolled adjustable arm holding pressed-glass ball shaped lamp with burlap.

Details

Descriptive Terms

floor lamps
electric lamps (lighting device forms)
glass (material)
white metal
Unidentified Metal
Glass
Colonial Revival
LAMP, ELECTRIC

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

56 x 12 1/2 x 13 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.711

Date

1800-1850 (Possibly)

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