Lamp, probably Whale-Oil

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Lamp, probably Whale-Oil

ManufacturerProbably New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Date1830-1845

DimensionsH: 10 in. (25.4 cm); Base W: 3 27/32 in. (9.8 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.19

Not on View

DescriptionFont blown and finished by tooling. Joined by two knops, one multiribbed, one cushion, to the base. Base pressed in the same mold and in the same manner as the base of candlestick 1964.63. Rough, solid pontil mark at center of base. The font rough-ground all over and stone-wheel-engraved with a polished pattern of three bunches of grapes, three sets of two acorns, three groups of five stylized leaves suspended from a line, and a circle of ovals above; around the waist is a band of unpolished fine diagonals. 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, pl. 180, no. 3 (candlestick with same base and multiribbed knops).

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, repr. p. 191, no. 5.

The Toledo Museum of Art, The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1963, p. 74, no. 199 (same lamp as Watkins).

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. 336, no. 421.