Lamp, Whale-Oil

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Lamp, Whale-Oil

Place of OriginProbably eastern United States

Date1830-1840

DimensionsH 20.1 cm (7 7/8 in.); W base 12.3 cm (4 27/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass; blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.67

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DescriptionFont blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a multiribbed knop to a short square stem with chamfered corners above a four-stepped base with concave sides and rounded corners. Stem and base pressed upside down in a plain one-piece female mold by a tapered, ribbed male plunger whose cross section conforms to the exterior shape of the base, with a short plain section above that formed the plain band on the interior of the base and the undersurface of its perimeter. Very rough, sharp pontil mark on ribs opposite top of bottom step. Pewter collar machined and threaded.

Published ReferencesWilson, 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. 329, no 402.