Milk Bottle Lamp

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Object Name: 
Milk Bottle Lamp
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Netherlands, Amsterdam
Accession Number: 
97.3.8
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 300 cm, W: 36 cm, D: 27 cm; Ceiling Mount H: 5.1 cm, W: 35.3 cm, D: 26.3 cm; Milk Bottle H: 28.1 cm, Diam 9.0 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1991
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass; machine made, sandblasted; steal, metal, coated wire, assembled. Tall lighting fixture with rectangular metal box at ceiling from which hangs 12 coated wires with metal caps on ends that fit onto sandblasted recycled milk bottles (4 Rows of 3 each). Light blubs, Leuci, 230 V 15 W, Italy H5.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Pattern Name: 
DMD04
Provenance: 
DMD Development Manufacturing Division, Source
1997-01-14
Category: 
Contemporary
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
sandblasting
machine-made
mold-blowing
assembling
Material: 
glass
steel
wire
electric wiring
Inscription: 
WS 3 10-10-5
mark
: 
molded on some bottles
Copyright: 
© Tejo Remy

Publications (1)

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1997 (1998) p. 15; BIB# AI95178