Oversized Floor Lamp

Accession Number
2013/2.241A

Title
Oversized Floor Lamp

Artist(s)
Stickley Brothers Furniture Company

Object Creation Date
circa 1904-1918

Medium & Support
patinated and hammered copper and brass with textured caramel slag glass panels

Dimensions
5 ft. 2 1/2 in. x 16 in. (158.75 x 40.64 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Jonathan Van Loo

Physical Description
The peaked shade has eight panels with overlaid linear copper border decoration above a cove molded lower rim. The lamp retains four original sockets. The upper column consists of an octagonal capped vase-form with a dominant ogee profile over a round medial column which is slightly beveled in form and decorated with spaced, spirally arranged brass rods applied to its surface. The octagonal molded base repeats the ogee profile of the upper vase form.

Primary Object Classification
Furniture and Furniture Accessories

Primary Object Type
lamp stand

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
lamps (lighting devices)

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