Newcomb Pottery: Lamp

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April 7, 2014
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Lamp
Newcomb Art Collection / Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service

Lamp with shade, c.1902

Ceramic base—painted underglaze of “cat’s claw vine” design. Esther Huger Elliot, decorator; Joseph Meyer, potter. Cut out brass shade with copper screen in magnolia design. Artist unknown. Newcomb Art Collection, Tulane University, New Orleans, La. (Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service)