Lamp, Whale-Oil
Manufacturer: Possibly Phoenix Glass Works (American, 1819 or 1820-1870)
Manufacturer: Possibly Union Flint Glass Works (American, 1826-1844)
Date: 1835-1840
Dimensions:
H: 30.2 cm (11 7/8 in.); Base L: 10.1 cm (3 31/32 in.); Base W: 9.9 cm (3 29/32 in.); Base Diagonal: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.)
Medium: Colorless glass.
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number: 1965.20
DescriptionConical font blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a multiribbed knop to the quatrefoil base with paw feet at the corners and corbels above. Standard and base pressed upside down in a one-piece female mold, in conjunction with a female mold of four vertical sections bearing a pattern of corbels, fans, and ram's heads that formed the cusped quatrefoil base with paw feet, by a tapered male plunger, plain except for fine ribs on its upper part between the paw feet, that formed the hollow base and undersurface of the perimeter and a low boss under each paw foot. Slight roughness on base from large circular pontil mark. Font cut with strawberry diamonds and fans above panels. Collar machined and threaded, with a double-wick burner for whale oil.
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