Lamp, Whale-Oil or Burning-Fluid

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Lamp, Whale-Oil or Burning-Fluid

Place of OriginNew England

Date1840-1850

DimensionsH: 11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm); Base W: 4 3/32 in. (10.4 cm)

MediumAlabaster glass, light blue font and white standard and base.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.19

Not on View

DescriptionFont, from the underside of the scallops above the six acanthus leaves to the row of petals below, pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections, in conjunction with a two-piece mold that formed the upper parts of the scallops and the cylinder from which the domed top was formed by reheating and tooling, by a plain male plunger. Two moldmarks are readily visible on the dome; one is in line with one of the three seams of the mold for the lower part of the base, the other is not. Joined by a wafer to the standard patterned with four acanthus leaves, and the stepped base. Standard, top step of base, and probably the row of beads (nineteen on each of two adjacent sides and eighteen each on the other two, plus a bead at each corner), pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections, in conjunction with a one-piece female mold that formed the bottom step, by a plain male plunger that formed the hollow interior of the standard and base and the underside of the base. Moldmarks visible on top of top step at opposite corners; no moldmarks visible on bottom step of base. Slight pontil mark around bottom edge of hollow standard. Brass collar machined and threaded.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 468, pl. 193, center.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 296, fig. 250, top center.

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. 223, no. 869, colorpl. 12.

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. 422, no. 636, colorpl. 636, p. 255.