Lamp, three spouts

Hard pale deposits over a green black body, with one window rubbed back to bare bronze.

Vessels

Obj 07

Record

Year
2025
Alloy
Bronze, cast
Size
144 × 96 cm
Medium
Archival pigment print
Availability
On hold
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The deposits are the part people ask about. They are not corrosion at all: they are what the ground leaves behind, and a conservator spends most of their time deciding how much of it is evidence and how much is dirt.

I left more than a museum would. The one clean window is where somebody in the story decided to find out what was underneath, and stopped.

Three spouts because a single wick is a sad object and two is a pair. Three is a household.

Surface 07
The rubbed window, and the deposit around it