Lamp, Whale-Oil

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Lamp, Whale-Oil

Place of OriginNew England

Date1820-1830

DimensionsH: 9 31/32 in. (25.3 cm); Base W: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.102A

Not on View

DescriptionFont and large hollow knop, with triple-bladed knop between, blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a triple-bladed knop to the quadruple-dome-on-square base. Base pressed upside down by a hand press in a one-piece female mold for exterior form by a male plunger with twenty rounded tapered ribs whose points meet at the center, creating a lemon-squeezer pattern on the underside, and a flat square shoulder that formed the flat perimeter of the base around it. Underside of base partly ground to level it. Slightly rough pontil mark around edge of ribbed pattern.

Published ReferencesRogers, Millard F., Jr., "The Story of American Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 9, no. 3, Autumn 1966, pp. 51-70; rev. and reprinted as a Toledo Museum handbook, repr. p. 61.

Bassett, Preston R., "The Evolution of the American Glass Lamp," Rushlight, vol. 33, February 1967, pp. 1464-1471, p. 1469, fig. 14 (lamp of similar form and type of base).

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 225, fig. 182 (lamp with similar base).

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 290, no. 322.