Oil lamp
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| Caption | Oil lamp with a flared base topped by a circluar platform which supports two arches supporting two circluar, smoke coloured holders. In between them is a round shaped structure with a red coloured cone shaped top. At the bottom of each holder and structure are perforations. At the back, a handle projects outward from the cone topped structure and ends just below the circular platform. The lamp itself has a yellow coloured body covered with red and black geometric motifs in the shape of triangles and rectangles, some of which are filled in with crisscross lines and checkerboard patterns. Date: 1830s. Record ID: nmafa_2000-16-1. |
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| Creator | Kabyle artist, maker |
| Artwork medium | Ceramic |
| Credit | Smithsonian National Museum of African Art |
| Terms of use | Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0) |
| Search stock images by keyword | Oil lamp flared base topped circluar platform supports arches supporting smoke holders Men Geometric motif Kabyle artist |
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| YSF000001 | 2,372 x 3,000 pixels | 3 |
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