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Temple Lamp with Animal Mask Handles

Hindu, 1800-1899

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Temple Lamp with Animal Mask Handles

Hindu, 1800-1899

Physical Qualities Metal alloy, 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm.) L
Credit Line Lockwood de Forest Collection
Object Number 1922.2.42
oval boat shape
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1922; American Art Galleries, New York; Lockwood de Forest purchased in India, probably 1914
Catalogue of the Rare and Valuable Examples of East Indian Persian and Syro-Damascan Art and Curios forming the private collection of the widely known artist and connoisseur Lockwood De Forest, Esq. of New York City, NY: American Art Association, 1922, no. 76.
Anne Suydam Lewis, Lockwood de Forest Painter Importer Decorator, Huntington, NY: Hecksher Museum, 1976, pp. 4-10, 12-32.
Roberta A. Mayer, "The Aesthetics of Lockwood de Forest," "Winterthur Portfolio," 31:1, The Henry Hrancis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc., 1996, pp. 1-22.

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