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Lamp

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1850-1865

DimensionsH: 6 15/32 in. (16.45 cm); Base W: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)

MediumViolet-blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.118

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DescriptionFont blown in a full-size female mold of three vertical sections that formed the nine vertical convex panels with three ribs between each, the domed top, and probably the lip to hold the collar. The domed top was formed by reheating and tooling. Joined directly to a hexagonal standard and base. Standard and base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain hexagonal male plunger that formed the hollow interior, with a cap ring that formed the underside of the foot. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesRose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1954, p. 96, no. 293.

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. 453, no. 717.