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Lamp, Whale-Oil

ManufacturerProbably Boston and Sandwich Glass Works American, 1826-1888

ManufacturerProbably New England Glass Company American, 1818-1888

Date1830-1845

DimensionsH (with wick): 8 9/16 in. (21.8 cm); H (without wick): 8 1/4 in. (21.0 cm); Base W: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)

MediumColorless glass; blown and tooled. Stem and base pressed in a mold.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.10

Not on View

Collections

Glass

Published ReferencesThe followings references are to candlesticks and lamps with the same base as this piece, possibly pressed to the same mold:

Lee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 452, pl. 177, center.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 191, no. 1 (two candlesticks).

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, NH, authors, vol. 4, 1983, p. 41, no. 4008 (candlesticks with the same bases and cornucopia sockets).

Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1954, p. 107, no. 306, pl. XVII.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 215, no. 828, (candlestick, same as Rose).

Hayward, Arthur H., Colonial Lighting, 3d ed., with intro. and suppl. "Colonial Lighting," New York, Dover, 1962, p. 121, pl. 180, far left (similar lamp with different font).

Bassett, Preston R., "The Evolution of the American Glass Lamp," Rushlight, vol. 33, February 1967, pp. 1464-1471, pp. 5-12, esp. p. 10, fig. 12 (drawing of a lamp with a base of the same pattern).

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, no. 443 (pair).

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. 337, no. 423.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Early American Pressed Glass, January 28-March 6, 1966 (no catalog).