Lamp, Whale-Oil

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Lamp, Whale-Oil

Place of OriginProbably eastern United States

Date1830-1840

DimensionsH: 8 7/16 in. (21.4 cm); Base W: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm)

MediumColorless glass with a deep aquamarine tinge.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.4

Not on View

DescriptionFont blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a multiribbed knop to an eight-ribbed columnar stem above a four-stepped square plinth. Base pressed upside down in a one-piece female mold by a male plunger of truncated square pyramid form, each side bearing four triangular ribs, with a shoulder that formed the flat underside of the perimeter of the base. Solid pontil mark in center of base.

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. 322, no. 384.Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Early American Pressed Glass, exhibition, January 28-March 6, 1966 (no catalog).