Lamp, Whale-Oil or Burning -Fluid

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Lamp, Whale-Oil or Burning -Fluid

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1850-1860

DimensionsH: 10 3/16 in. (25.9 cm); Base W: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)

MediumSapphire-blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.160

Not on View

DescriptionFont with short stem pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the Bigler pattern by a plain male plunger; the plain cylindrical top reheated and tooled to form the domed top (the three moldmarks are still evident). Joined by a wafer to a double knop above an octagonal standard on a square plinth. Standard and plinth pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections opening at the centers of two opposite sides of the base, in conjunction with a one-piece female mold that formed the square plinth with small chamfered corners, by a plain male plunger of tapered cylindrical and square form. Rough pontil mark around edge of opening to standard. Pewter collar machined and threaded to accept burner.

Published ReferencesWinchester, Alice, "Antiques," Antiques, vol. 100, July 1971, repr. p. 83, color frontis.

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. 446, no. 698.