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Lamp, Double-Arm Argand


Title Lamp, Double-Arm Argand
Artist/Maker Unidentified
Date 1820-1840 ca.
Medium Parcel-gilt bronze, cut glass
Dimensions h. 18.5 x w. 16 x d. 8.5 in. (h. 47 x w. 40.6x d. 21.6 cm)
Credit Line U.S. Senate Collection
Accession Number 52.00009.001


  • Object Description
  • One of a set of three lamps given to the United States Senate in 1974 by descendants of Isaac Bassett, a Senate employee from 1831 to 1895.
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
  • Brass plate (one on each burner assembly): B. GARDINER / N. York