Lamp, Whale-Oil or Burning-Fluid

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Lamp, Whale-Oil or Burning-Fluid

ManufacturerProbably Union Glass Works (American, 1854-1924)

Date1854-1865

DimensionsH: 10 3/32 in. (25.6 cm); Base W: 4 13/32 in. (11.2 cm)

MediumColorless glass with a deep grayish cast.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.151

Not on View

DescriptionFont 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 and lip were formed by reheating and tooling, by the Magoun patent method, by a plain male plunger. Joined by a wafer to a hexagonal standard on a scalloped base. Standard and base pressed in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger of cylindrical and hexagonal shape that formed the hollow interior, with a cap ring that formed the underside of the perimeter of the base and a short triangular section on each edge leading to each side. No pontil mark. Brass collar machined and threaded.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, pp. 161-163, pl. 51.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 261, nos. 1038, 1039 (covered sugar bowl and celery vase in same pattern).

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. 450, no. 708.