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Brass and copper lamp from the home of Walter and Louise Arensberg : [object]
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- Description
- Brass and copper desk lamp, approximately 1900. Brass with decorative etched copper inset in shade. Place of manufacture unknown. Shows evidence of electrical re-wiring.
- Production date
- approximately 1900
- Call number
- 653728
- Provenance
- Donation from Francis Bacon Foundation, Claremont, California, November 1995 Transferred to Huntington library with Francis Bacon Library collection in 1995. This was among a small group of furniture items from the Library that were transferred along with the collection of books and archives. It is listed on the inventory as "brass and copper lamp, ca. 1900". The lamp came from the home of Walter and Louise Arensberg and is shown in a photograph with the painting "Lamp" by Juan Gris, 1916, which is now currently in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
