Lamp, Burning-Fluid

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

Date1850-1860

DimensionsH (with wick tubes): 28.45 cm (11 3/16 in.); H (without wick tubes): 24.8 cm (9 13/16 in.); Base W: 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in.)

MediumDeep blue lead glass with purple tinge.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.104

Not on View

DescriptionTapered hexagonal font with cusped corners and short cylindrical stem pressed in a female mold, probably of one piece, by a plain tapered cylindrical male plunger, the upper part reheated and tooled to form the top of the font and lip for the collar. Joined by a wafer to a tapered cylindrical stem on a square pedestal on a square base. Stem and base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger of tapered cylindrical and square form. Underside of base ground and polished. No pontil mark. Pewter collar machined and threaded, fitted with a pewter double-wick burner for burning-fluid with chain and caps.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 392, pl. 203, nos. 58-64 (drawing of bases)

Keefe, John W., "A Comparison of the Products of the New England and the Boston and Sandwich Glass Companies," pt. 1, The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, nos. 96-97, December 1970-March 1971, pp. 3-12; pt. 2, The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, no. 98, August 1971, pp. 3-7, repr. p. 12, fig. 18

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. 448, no. 703.