VICTORIAN CERAMIC FIGURAL MINIATURE LAMPS, SET OF TWO, white bisque with multi-color stain decoration, depicting a young girl in dress and a young boy in short trousers, each standing beside a blooming artichoke within foliage, reverse impressed "6138", period collars. Each fitted with a period burner, matching dark amber cut to colorless chimney-shades with stylized punties and star pattern. Fourth quarter 19th/early 20th century. 9 3/4" H to top of chimney-shade, 5 3/4" H to top of collar.
Literature: Parallels Hulsebus - Miniature Lamps of the Victorian Era, p. 96, fig. 204.
Provenance: The collection of Larry Spradley, Beaumont, TX.
One example with a horizontal hairline to font and lower base, remaining example undamaged. One burner undamaged, remaining lacking wick tube, chimney-shades undamaged.