Project “Creation and presentation of digitally accessible cultural heritage of Shumen Municipality”

Lamp

Detailed information

Name of the object

Lamp

Inventory №

4328

Location

Shumen Regional Museum

Material from which the item is made

Metal – gold, silver, copper, iron, bronze

Dimensions and weight

Height 20 cm, hight tube 25 cm, diameter bottom 6,5 cm

Method of acquisition and location

Purchase

Cultural period of creation

Ethnography

Item description

Gas lamp. White porcelain body. Lower part with round bottom, rounded upwards into equally rounded part with larger diameter. The two parts attached sphere-like. Top of yellow alloy metal, incised, short, parallel vertical lines in circle. Openwork tube recess. On the side – mechanism for increasing and decreasing the flame. Glass tube, cylindrical, in its lower part sphereshaped. On it maker’s mark and the inscriptions “spistal”, “made in slovakia”, “15”
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