Lamp
Manufacturer: Possibly New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)
Date: 1840-1850
Dimensions:
H 30.0 cm (11 13/16 in.); W base 11.1 cm (4 3/8 in.); D font 10.9 cm (4 9/32 in.)
Medium: Alabaster glass; pressed.
Place of Origin: Possibly East Cambridge, Massachusetts
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number: 1968.40
DescriptionJade-green font and white standard and base. Font pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections, in conjunction with a mold of two vertical sections that formed the cylinder from which the domed top was formed by reheating and tooling, by a plain male plunger. Two moldmarks visible on dome. Joined by a wafer of the same green alabaster glass to the standard and the stepped base. Standard and base pressed in similar mold with eighteen beads on each side plus one at each corner and in the same manner as the base of 1966.19. Rough pontil mark around bottom edge of hollow standard.
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