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X2001.11.101 Lamp
Object Name: Lamp
Place of Origin: Nepal
Date/Era: 17th century
Dimensions: H: 24.20 cm, W: 8.30 cm, D: 10.80 cm
Medium/Materials: Brass, Wood
Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. Gift of the Pal Family.
Accession Number: X2001.11.101
This brass lamp with a wooden base bears an inscription in seventeenth-century Newari script, which is no longer legible but presumably names someone who donated the lamp to a temple.
Source: Exhibition wall text. Flames of Devotion: Oil Lamps from South and Southeast Asia and the Himalayas.
