Pair of Lamps

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Pair of Lamps

ManufacturerProbably Union Flint Glass Works (American, 1826-1844)

Dateabout 1865

DimensionsH: 25.8 cm (10 5/32 in.); Base W: 10.7 cm sq. (4 3/16 in.)

MediumGlass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.72A-B

Not on View

DescriptionFlattened globular font and standard blown and finished by tooling, then joined by double-bladed knop. Joined by a bladed knop to the elaborate base. Stem and base pressed upside down in a female mold, apparently of one piece, that formed the stem, the intricate pattern between it and the square base, and the upper surface and sides of the base, by a male plunger that formed the interior of the base and stem and the several patterns of ribbing within them, with a cap ring that formed the underside of the edges of the base, the ribbed pendentive forms extending downward from it, and the ribbed feet at each corner. Cut with a pattern of printies with blaze above alternating with squares of strawberry diamonds on end, each surmounted by a fan. Brass collar machined and threaded.

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. 86.

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. 341, no. 430.