VICTORIAN CERAMIC FIGURAL MINIATURE LAMP, white bisque with various stain decoration and gilt decorated highlights, depicting a Victorian lady in orange gown sitting beside a blooming artichoke, reverse impressed "7850", opaque white ball-form shade with light opalescence, period collar. Fitted with a Thiel & Bardenheuer burner, colorless chimney. Fourth quarter 19th/early 20th century. 8 5/8" H to top of shade, 5 3/8" H to top of collar, 2 1/4" x 3 1/2" base.
Literature: Parallels Hulsebus - Miniature Lamps of the Victorian Era, p. 96, fig. 204.
Provenance: The collection of Larry Spradley, Beaumont, TX.
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, 4/24/2020, lot 201.
Ex-collection of Yvonne and the late Pete Lynch, Lincoln, DE.
Condition
Very good condition, one arm of lady with a light hairline, shade undamaged. Burner undamaged, chimney rims with normal as-made minute flakes/roughness along with a fitter loss.