Oil lamp
Ref: 0968
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Designer / Maker
Designed and manufactured by W.A.S. Benson (1854-1924)
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Detail
Cast-iron, copper, brass and glass
Height: 69 cm
English (London), circa 1900
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Notes
The design for this oil lamp, which retains its original glass shade, probably by Powell of Whitefriars, appears in Benson’s Price List of Fittings for Oil, Gas, Candle Tableware &c., 1899-1900, pl. 4, no. 393.
For similar shades, see Wendy Evans, et al., Whitefriars Glass: James Powell & Sons of London, London, 1995, p. 62, nos 58-59.
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Collection
Private collection