Lamp, Whale-Oil or Burning-Fluid

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Lamp, Whale-Oil or Burning-Fluid

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

Date1855-1870

DimensionsH: 9 1/32 in. (22.9 cm); Base W: 3 21/32 in. (9.3 cm)

MediumGreenish-yellow (so-called Vaseline) lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.13

Not on View

DescriptionEntire piece pressed upright in the same manner and in a mold of the same type as that used for 1967.108 and 1964.40 but of a form and pattern different from either of them. Little evidence of pontil mark.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 386, 390, pl. 199, no. 25.

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. 451, no. 710.

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