- Titles Reading Lamp (Descriptive)
- Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
- Medium stoneware (black basalt)
- Dimensions 8 3/4 × 7 7/8 × 4 in. (22.2 × 20 × 10.2 cm)
- Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight M. Beeson, 1980.115.1a-b
- Work Type oil lamp
- Classification Furnishings and Equipment
- On View
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks On the underside of the lamp impressed WEDGWOOD
- Inscription On the underside a Beeson collection sticker and a Beeson loan sticker, the cover with an additional Beeson collection sticker on the underside
- Provenance Dealer Ann Brodkiewicz, Chicago, Illinois; purchased in 1965 by Dwight Beeson (1903-1985) and Lucille Stewart Beeson (1905-2001), Birmingham, Alabama; by gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1980