Lamp, Whale-Oil

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

Date1826-1835; globe and attachment: probably 1835-1845

DimensionsH (with globe): 29.8 cm (11 3/4 in.); H (without globe): 20.9 cm (8 1/4 in.); Base W: 7.9 cm (3 1/8 in.); Diam (globe): 10. 7 cm (4 3/16 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.74

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

Collections

Glass

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, no. 4, repr. p. 83.

Davidson, Marshall, The American Heritage History of Antiques from the Civil War to World War I, New York, American Heritage, 1969, p. 208, repr. fig. 283.

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, p. 210, nos. 812, 816.

Wilson, Kenneth M., "Cut Glass Lamps Attributed to the Union Flint Glass Works, Kensington, Philadelphia," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 25, 1983, pp. 221-224.

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. 340, no. 428.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Treasures for Toledo, December 1964-January 1965.