Lamp, Burning-Fluid

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Lamp, Burning-Fluid

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

Date1847-1865

DimensionsH (with wick tubes): 28.3 cm (11 5/32 in.); Base W: 7.8 cm (3 1/8 in.)

MediumSapphire-blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.68A

Not on View

DescriptionFont and stem to the cushion knop pressed 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. Joined by a wafer to an octagonal standard on a square plinth. Standard and plinth made in the same manner as ACGC, p. 444, no. 691 but in a mold with slight variations. No pontil mark. Pewter collar machined and threaded.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, pp. 467-468, pl. 192, left.

Watkins, Lura Woodside, "Early Glass Pressing at Cambridge and Sandwich," Antiques, vol. 26, December 1935, p. 242, fig. 1 (Reprint 2, p. 23).

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 389, pl. 197, no. 4.

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, pp. 99-100, no. 322.

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. 694.