A copper & brass oil cistern for a mechanical lamp used to illuminate a dioptric light of the first order, Scotland, circa 1860.

Maker: James Milne & Son, Milton House, Edinburgh.

Design by Thomas Hope. (Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, by Thomas Hope, published in 1807, plate XIX, fig1.)

Height: 95 cm.

Diameter: 46 cm.

Supplied to the Alguada Reef Lighthouse, Burma.

Provenance: The Honorable Company of Master Mariners; presented by Mrs H M Dawson in 1949.

For similar see the collections of:

National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. (Museum reference: T.1993.148).

https://www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-collections/collection-search-results?entry=379435

Museum Of Scottish Lighthouses, Fraserburgh.

Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse: With Notes of the Illumination of Lighthouses. By Alan Stevenson.1848. Plate XX.

Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, by Thomas Hope, published in 1807, plate XIX, fig1.

The Alguada Reef Lighthouse was built in Burma off the coast of Cape Negrais (now Myanmar) it is now longer in use. Construction began in 1860, was it completed in 1865, it is  modelled after the Skerryvore Lighthouse built by Alan Stevenson of the Stevenson family of lighthouse engineers.