Lamp, Whale-Oil

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Lamp, Whale-Oil

ManufacturerPossibly Phoenix Glass Works (American, 1819 or 1820-1870)

ManufacturerPossibly Union Flint Glass Works (American, 1826-1844)

Date1835-1840

DimensionsH: 30.2 cm (11 7/8 in.); Base L: 10.1 cm (3 31/32 in.); Base W: 9.9 cm (3 29/32 in.); Base Diagonal: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.20

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

DescriptionConical font blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a multiribbed knop to the quatrefoil base with paw feet at the corners and corbels above. Standard and base pressed upside down in a one-piece female mold, in conjunction with a female mold of four vertical sections bearing a pattern of corbels, fans, and ram's heads that formed the cusped quatrefoil base with paw feet, by a tapered male plunger, plain except for fine ribs on its upper part between the paw feet, that formed the hollow base and undersurface of the perimeter and a low boss under each paw foot. Slight roughness on base from large circular pontil mark. Font cut with strawberry diamonds and fans above panels. Collar machined and threaded, with a double-wick burner for whale oil.

Published ReferencesRogers, Millard F., Jr., "Early American Pressed Glass: The Duckworth Gift of Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 8, no. 4, Winter 1965, pp. 74-94, no. 4, repr. p. 90.

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. 342, no. 431.