Lamp, Whale-Oil
Manufacturer: Phoenix Glass Works (American, 1819 or 1820-1870)
Manufacturer: South Boston Flint Glass Works (American, 1813-1827)
Date: 1813-1830
Dimensions:
H (to top of wick tubes): 27.0 cm (10 5/8 in.); H (to rim): 25.8 cm (10 5/32 in.); Base W: 8.7 cm (3 7/16 in.)
Medium: Colorless glass.
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number: 1982.161
DescriptionFont blown and finished by tooling, with a mercurial ring formed by an air trap. Joined by an applied pressed ribbed mushroom-form collar to the blown and tooled inverted baluster standard. Applied band of raspberry prunts on standard. Joined by a wafer to a domed base on a square plinth with a lemon-squeezer design on the underside. Base pressed by a hand press. Fitted with a double-wick cork-supported tin burner for whale oil.
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