Lamp

ManufacturerProbably Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

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

Date1847-1860

DimensionsH (with metal wickholder): 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm); H (without metal wick holder): 8 5/16 in. (21.1 cm); Base W: 3 in. (7.6 cm)

MediumAmethyst lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.106

Not on View

DescriptionFont and short stem pressed upright in a one-piece female mold of octagonal form, in conjunction with a one-piece cylindrical mold from which the domed top was formed by reheating and tooling, by the Magoun patent method, by a plain male plunger. Joined by a wafer to an octagonal standard on a square plinth. Standard and plinth pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections by a male plunger of domed form bearing eight rounded ribs and a square shoulder. Rough pontil mark around edge of ribs. Undersurface of edge of base ground. Pewter collar machined and threaded.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 389, pl. 198, no. 10 (same base).

Russell, Loris S., A Heritage of Light, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1967, fig. 51 (lamp with same base).

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. 233, no. 914.

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, NH, authors, vol. 4, 1983, p. 52, no. 4029 (candlestick with same base).

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. 443, no. 689.