Lamp Finial

Title: Lamp Finial
Inventory Number: A0270
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Italy
From Date: 1
To Date: 100
Description: Triangular handle ornament decorated w relief 7-petaled palmette rising from floral base in 2 parts: small lotiform device at base of palmette from which leafy scrolls extend out to near edges. Originally painted all over exterior with paint extending onto back.
State of Preservation: Mended from 2 or 3 fragments. Badly worn , so that paint, particularly on relief decoration, spotty. Was once held together with tape, glue from which visible as broad band diagonally across front to back.
Height: 7.5 cm
Width: 6.3 cm
Color: Clay body 7.5YR 8/2 (pinkish white); paint 7.5YR 3/2 (dark brown) worn to 7.5YR 6/2 (pinkish gray).
Type: lamp
Material: fired clay