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Lamp

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1850-1865

DimensionsH: 7 13/32 in. (18.85 cm); Base W: 2 3/4 in. (7.0 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.115

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DescriptionFont blown in a full-size female mold of three vertical sections. The moldmarks extend vertically, in every other groove between the block-and-printie design, from bottom to collar. Joined by a wafer to the cylindrical top of the tapered square base. Base pressed upside down in a mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger, with a cap ring that formed the hollow underside of the foot. No pontil mark. Britannia-ware collar machined and threaded.

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. 452, no. 713.