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Lamp

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1845-1855

DimensionsH: 8 3/16 in. (20.8 cm); Base W: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); Rim Diam: 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm)

MediumEmerald-green lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.109

Not on View

DescriptionFont pressed, probably upright, in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the pattern, 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 a hexagonal standard and base. Standard and base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections bearing the pattern by a plain male plunger that formed the hollow interior of the conical and cylindrical base and the underside and upward tapering edge of the hexagonal foot. Intermittent pontil scars around the inner edge of the base. 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. 342, pl. 202, no. 52 (but drawing lacks uppermost hexagonal knop on standard).

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. 436, no. 671, colorpl. 671, p. 257.