Lamp, Whale-Oil

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Lamp, Whale-Oil

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1830-1835

DimensionsH 21.0 cm (8 1/4 in.); W base 7.85 cm (3 3/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass; blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.3

Not on View

DescriptionFont blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a multiribbed knop to the short stem on the base. Base pressed upside down in a plain one-piece female mold by a male plunger bearing the pattern ribs, four-dot diamonds, and rope-encircled bosses on the interior surface of the stem and base and on the flat underside of the edge of the base. Rough pontil mark on interior of base, above diamonds. Font tooled to accept a cork-supported burner.

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. 379.