Lamp, Burning-Fluid

Place of OriginProbably the United States; possibly France

Date1835-1845

DimensionsH (with burner): 13 11/16 in. (34.8 cm); H (without burner): 12 1/4 in. (31.1 cm); Base Diam: 4 13/32 in. (11.2 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.22

Not on View

DescriptionBulb font blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a multiribbed knop to a cylindrical base with tapered upper section. Base blown in a mold of three vertical sections and a plain base plate. Rough pontil mark in center of slightly concave base. Brass collar machined and threaded, with a double-wick brass burner for burning fluid.

Published ReferencesRushlight Club, comp., Early Lighting: A Pictorial Guide, Boston, 1972, p. 62, no. 6-3.

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. 346, no. 439.