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19th Century Scottish / Orkney Isles Wrought Iron Hanging 'Cruisie' Oil Lamp (1 of 36)
W&W Antiques
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19th Century Scottish / Orkney Isles Wrought Iron Hanging 'Cruisie' Oil Lamp

REF: 3024 - 290621 / LA356565
£145
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Description
For sale is a charismatic and robust Scottish vernacular 'Cruisie' oil lamp. - In the 18th and 19th Century in the Highlands, coasts and Islands of Scotland lighting methods and the availability of fuels such as comparatively expensive candles was limited. This meant that adaptations of rush lighting and the use of oil from fish in coastal districts was commonplace. This was alongside the basic glow from the light of fires in open hearth dwellings/croft houses. - This wrought iron, blacksmith made oil lamp or betty from the Orkney Isles was handmade by hammering out a plate of iron to form into a mould. This was suspended from a wall, nail or beam to provide an adaptable and movable, additional source of light. - The good size hanging oil lamp is handmade in wrought iron and swings from a decoratively twisted hanging hook down to a revolving attachment located at the top of the oil lamp bracket. - The cuisie measures circa 36 cm from the hanger down, the body/bracket of the oil lamp is around 22-23cm and the dish is about 16 cm long and 9cm at the widest bowls section. - Cruisie lamps vary a great deal in design and shape, dependent on the availability of iron and the purpose for which they were used. - A standard approach had a double pan arrangement and this one looks to have lost its upper 'smaller' pan some time ago (which allowed them to catch the oil drips and not waste anything), judging by the bracket mid-way up the stem. - Cruisie lamps consist of leaf-shaped vessels in which to hold the oil, into which a floating rush or appropriate wick was placed from the neck to act as a wick soaking up the oil to burn as a bright light source. In modern times people utilise tea-lights or olive oil into these cruisie lamps with an appropriate wick to reproduce soft/atmospheric lighting. A very robustly built vernacular item with considerable charm from the Orkney Isles, Scotland ready for another 150 years of utility.
measurements
Height:
36 cm
Width:
16 cm
Depth:
9 cm
declaration
W&W Antiques has clarified that the 19th Century Scottish / Orkney Isles Wrought Iron Hanging 'Cruisie' Oil Lamp (LA356565) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being 1825
condition
Please consider the photographs and description as a great record of the condition of this antique item.
location
This 19th Century Scottish / Orkney Isles Wrought Iron Hanging 'Cruisie' Oil Lamp is located in United Kingdom