Table Electric Lamp
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- Date
- 1925 – 1935
- Material
- metal; skin; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 102.05.0057
- Description
- A 3-bulb electric table lamp. Base is square brass with affixed leaves, shaft is a modified column in square cross section, but columnated like bamboo. Harp support extends from shaft to original lampshade which is decorated with abstracted leaves in border. Atop the lamp sits a little man, naked,…
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- Title
- Table Electric Lamp
- Date
- 1925 – 1935
- Material
- metal; skin; paper
- Dimensions
- 82.5 x 48.0 cm
- Description
- A 3-bulb electric table lamp. Base is square brass with affixed leaves, shaft is a modified column in square cross section, but columnated like bamboo. Harp support extends from shaft to original lampshade which is decorated with abstracted leaves in border. Atop the lamp sits a little man, naked, hunched on his knees, his beard flowing over his bent legs.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- figure
- male
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.05.0057
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