Marks and monograms on European and Oriental pottery and porcelain : with historical notices of each manufactory, preceded by an introductory essay on the vasa fictila of the Greek, Romano-British, and mediaeval eras (1886)
Chaffers, William, 1811-1892 · London : Reeves and Turner · leaf 59
LAMPS. 27 small flattened amphora, used to carry at the side, suspended by the handles round the neck: it is unglazed, with red markings round the sides ; found in Moorgate Street in 1835. (Geol. Mus. Coll. Chaffers, 962 and 713.) The lamps found in England are seldom of bronze, but almost… … upright ridges and handles, into which they fitted, and were thus carried about. These lamps are, with few exceptions, of a rude character, being mostly without ornaments or potters' names. Figs. 32 and 33 are speci- mens of the ordinary lamp, the former found in Queen Street, Cheapside, the latter…
Pottery · Porcelain
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