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Lamp, Whale-Oil

ManufacturerProbably New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Date1829-1835

DimensionsH (with wick): 26.0 cm (10 1/4 in.); Base W: 8.0 cm (3 5/32 in.); Rim Diam: 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.)

MediumOpaque white lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.108

Not on View

DescriptionConical font blown and finished by tooling. Joined by two wafers to the base. Base pressed in a complex female mold of four vertical sections bearing the pattern of a lion's head at the top of each corner of a square pedestal with pilasters at the corners framing four panels, each enclosing a basket of flowers, all above a three-tiered base with projecting corners, by a plain male plunger that formed the hollow square interior of the pedestal base, ending in a circle formed by four spandrels, and the flat underside of the base. Pewter collar machined and threaded.

Published ReferencesKnittle, Rhea Mansfield, Early American Glass, New York, Century, 1927, pl. 51, bottom right (globular font).

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 380, pl. 196, no. 7 (globular font).

Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., 1954, no. 69 (globular font).

Keefe, John W., "American Lacy and Pressed Glass in the Toledo Museum of Art," Antiques, vol. 100, July 1971, pp. 104-109 (Reprint 2, pp. 151-156), p. 107, repr. fig. 6, bottom center.

Keefe, John W., "A Comparison of the Products of the New England and the Boston and Sandwich Glass Companies," pt. 1, The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, nos. 96-97, December 1970-March 1971, pp. 3-12; pt. 2, The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, no. 98, August 1971, pp. 3-7, p. 4, repr. fig. 21.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, pp. 201-202, nos. 788, 791 (globular fonts).

Dodsworth, Roger, in Dan Klein and Ward Lloyd, eds., The History of Glass, London, Orbis, 1984, repr. p. 192, right.

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. 316, no. 371, colorpl. 371, p. 250.