Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2009

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Oil lamp

1830–50
Roswell Gleason
Overall: 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.)
Pewter

Classification: Pewter

Object Place: Dorchester, Massachusetts

Accession number: 2008.663

Location: The Heide Family Galleries (Roswell Gleason House: Dining Room)

Provenance/Ownership History: unknown private collection to an antiques dealer in Missouri; acquired by Bette and Melvyn Wolf, Inc., Flint, Michigan; purchased by Gerald W.R. Ward for the Museum at the New Hampshire Antique Dealers Association show, Manchester, New Hampshire, August 8, 2008; purchased by the MFA, 2008. (Accession Date: September 17, 2008)

Museum purchase with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. Ulf B. Heide