Lamp, Whale-Oil

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Lamp, Whale-Oil

ManufacturerPossibly Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Place of OriginNew England

Date1829-1830

DimensionsH: 5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm); Base W: 2 21/32 in. (6.7 cm)

MediumColorless glass with a yellowish tinge.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.106

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DescriptionGlobular font and double-bladed knop below blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a wafer to a hollow base consisting of a double plinth with a bell-shaped standard above with ten alternating flutes and ridges, with a lemon-squeezer pattern on the interior. Base pressed upside down, probably in a bench press, in a one-piece female mold by a male plunger, the lower dome-shaped end with twenty-six triangular ribs on the sides of the dome, the upper part of two stepped squares that formed the hollow base and underside of its edges. Rough pontil mark around top of dome. Brass collar machined and threaded.

Published ReferencesWilson, 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. 304, no. 346.