FIGURAL OWL MINIATURE LAMP, opaque white with grey and black tones, orange enamel eyes, green base, body serves as the font, ball-form head serves as shade, period collar. Fitted with a period Acorn burner, later shade ring, colorless slip chimney. Late 19th/early 20th century. 7 3/4" H to top of shade, 4 1/8" H to top of collar, 2 3/4" D base.
Literature: Parallels Smith - Miniature Lamps I, p. 205, fig. 497.
Provenance: The collection of Larry Spradley, Beaumont, TX.

Lamp undamaged and with minor wear to decoration, shade rims with normal as-made roughness. Burner with denting and lacking one chimney gallery prong, chimney undamaged.