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

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Glass

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.