Lamp, Whale-Oil

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Lamp, Whale-Oil

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1835-1840

DimensionsH (with burner): 8 31/32 in. (22.8 cm); Base W: 3 1/32 in. (7.7 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.89

Not on View

DescriptionConical font blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a multi-ribbed knop to the base. Base pressed in a female mold of four vertical sections by a plain, square tapered male plunger that formed the hollow interior of the base and the underside of the perimeter. Pewter collar machined and threaded, with double-wick pewter-and-tin burner for whale oil.

Published ReferencesKnittle, Rhea Mansfield, Early American Glass, New York, Century, 1927, pl. 41, second from right (base probably pressed in same mold).

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, no. 447.

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. 332, no. 410.