Pair of Lamps, Whale-Oil

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Pair of Lamps, Whale-Oil

Place of OriginEastern United States

Date1830-1835

DimensionsH (with burner): 22.9 cm (9 in.); H (without burner): 22.0 cm (8 21/32 in.); Base W: 10.1 cm (3 31/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.2A-B

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DescriptionFont blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a multiribbed knop to the standard and base. Base pressed in a plain one-piece female mold by a male plunger bearing the pattern, the circular tapered lower part ribbed, the upper part in the form of a quatrefoil with indentations in each foil to produce circular pendentives on the underside of each foil and to form the plain underside of the foot. Rough pontil mark on inner edge of quatrefoil. Pewter collar machined and threaded, with a double-wick pewter-and-tin burner for whale oil.

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. 320, no. 380.Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Early American Pressed Glass, exhibition, January 28-March 6, 1966 (no catalog).