PH Table Lamp

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Object Name: 
8-piece Table Lamp
Title: 
PH Table Lamp
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Denmark, Copenhagen
Accession Number: 
96.3.43
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 45.0 cm; Shade Diam: 33.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1927
Primary Description: 
Table Lamp "PH" with light bulb. Colorless, translucent white glass, ceramic and painted metal.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Sotheby's, Source
1996-11-19
Category: 
Modern
Color: 
colorless
white
Technique: 
assembling
Material: 
glass
paint
metal
Bakelite (TM)
wire
Inscription: 
"PHlamp"
Trademark
Sotheby's / Founded 1744 / 01 NOV 1996 / LOT / No 200
label
: 
gummed on (e) and (f)
Circle with HM in the center and three other on side
mark
: 
on plug
Sotheby's / Founded 1744 / 200 / 01 NOV 1996
tag
: 
hanging tag
Copyright: 
© Poul Henningsen

Publications (2)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 39 (1997) illustrated, pp. 184-185, #51; BIB# AI5243
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1996 (1997) p. 15; BIB# AI95179