Carved Alabaster Urn Table Lamp lighting Understated

Understated

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Height: 39 cm

There he absorbed European modernist influences while continuing to draw from African ritual imagery and symbolic figuration

rather clumsy touch-ups carried out over the years

Carved Alabaster Urn Table Lamp lighting UnderstatedA table lamp carved entirely from alabaster in the form of a classical urn, its pale stone body softly translucent and richly textured with the gentle clouding and veining that make alabaster such a beautiful material to live with. Even unlit it has a quiet sculptural presence somewhere between a decorative object and a fragment of architecture. The form borrows from the long tradition of classical urns: a broad fluted rim above a rounded body carved