Lot 1352

VICTORIAN ENAMEL DECORATED MINIATURE LAMP

Estimate: $50 - $100
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VICTORIAN ENAMEL DECORATED MINIATURE LAMP, opaque white with raised pussy-willow and foliage decoration on a light to dark blue-gray ground with additional overshot decoration, conical-form and globular-form font, matching decorated conical form shade with ringed top, period collar. Fitted with a Spar Brenner burner, colorless chimney. Late 19th/early 20th century. 9 3/8" H to top of shade, 5 1/8" H to top of collar, 2 3/4" D base.
Literature: Hulsebus - Miniature Lamps of the Victorian Era, p. 135, fig. 288.
Provenance: The collection of Larry Spradley, Beaumont, TX.

Condition

Font and shade each with an approximate 1 1/4" vertical hairline off tops, some minor expected wear to decoration, shade fitter with normal as-made roughness. Burner with poor repairs and denting, chimney undamaged and with normal as-made rim roughness.