Lamp, Burning-Fluid

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1847-1855

DimensionsH (with wick tubes): 13 3/16 in. (33.5 cm); H (without wick tubes): 11 9/16 in. (29.4 cm); Base W: 3 7/32 in. (8.2 cm)

MediumWhite alabaster non-lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.97

Not on View

DescriptionHigh-domed hexagonal font and stem pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the pattern, 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 pedestal on a square plinth. Standard and base pressed upside down in a female mold of four vertical sections by a plain male plunger. Remains of pontil mark on underside of outer edge of base that is partly rough-ground. Brass collar machined and threaded, fitted with brass double-wick burner for burning fluid.

Published References"Recent Important Acquisitions," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 8, 1966, repr. p. 139, no. 54.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "The Story of American Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 9, no. 3, Autumn 1966, pp. 51-70; rev. and reprinted as a Toledo Museum handbook, repr. p. 63.

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. 448, no. 702, colorpl. 702, p. 258.

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