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Lamp, Single-Arm Argand

Lamp, Single-Arm Argand (Acc. No. 52.00012.001)


Title Lamp, Single-Arm Argand
Artist/Maker Unidentified
Date 1820-1840 ca.
Medium Parcel-gilt bronze, cut glass
Dimensions h. 18 x w. 11 in. (h. 45.7 x w. 27.9 cm)
Credit Line U.S. Senate Collection
Accession Number 52.00012.001


  • 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 (on burner assembly): B. GARDINER / N. York