Design for an Oil Lamp

Vertical rectangle. Design for an oil-burning lamp. The lamp is a covered bowl, standing upon a pedestal. A band surrounds its upper part, showing three ram heads fastened to it, above which the fires burn. A half-circular eyeshade is fastened by an arch to a pomegranate on top of the bowl. The upper part of the pedestal is shaped like the cover of a sarcophagus, with heads at the corners. In the panel of the front of the pedestal are two butterflies in a wreath. At the upper right edge are remnants of a framing ink line.

Credit: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund