PORCELAIN PIG FIGURAL MINIATURE LAMP, natural toned standing pig with facial features, hugging a figural sack with ropes in a blue ground and with gilt decoration, transparent blue quilted-optic ball-form shade, period collar. Fitted with a period burner, colorless Stern Brenner slip chimney. Fourth quarter 19th/early 20th century. 6 5/8" H to top of shade, 3 7/8" H to top of collar, 2" x 3 1/2" overall base.
Literature: Parallels Hulsebus - Miniature Lamps of the Victorian Era, p. 86, fig. 181.
Provenance: The collection of Larry Spradley, Beaumont, TX.

Undamaged lamp, shade with several minor rim flakes/roughness, some as made, fitter with a vertical elongated bubble off rim. Setup undamaged.