Lamp, Whale-Oil

Place of OriginProbably New England or eastern United States

Date1847-1855

DimensionsH (with wick tubes): 9 9/16 in. (24.3 cm); H (without wick tubes): 9 5/32 in. (23.25 cm); Base W: 3 5/32 in. (8.0 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.64A

Not on View

DescriptionFont pressed, apparently in a one-piece female mold, in conjunction with a one-piece cylindrical mold from which the domed top was formed by reheating and tooling by the Magoun patent method, by a plain male plunger. Font has no visible moldmarks. Joined by a wafer to a hexagonal standard and plinth. Standard and plinth pressed in the same manner and in the same mold as used for 1982.158 and 1982.163. No pontil mark. Pewter collar machined and threaded, fitted with a pewter-and-tin double-wick whale-oil burner.

Published ReferencesRogers, Millard F., Jr., "Early American Pressed Glass: The Duckworth Gift of Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 8, no. 4, Winter 1965, pp. 74-94, repr. p. 91.

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. 445, no. 693.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Early American Pressed Glass, exhibition, January 28-March 6, 1966 (no catalog).