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Lamp

ManufacturerPossibly New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Place of OriginPossibly East Cambridge, Massachusetts

Date1840-1850

DimensionsH 30.0 cm (11 13/16 in.); W base 11.1 cm (4 3/8 in.); D font 10.9 cm (4 9/32 in.)

MediumAlabaster glass; pressed.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.40

Not on View

DescriptionJade-green font and white standard and base. Font pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections, in conjunction with a mold of two vertical sections that formed the cylinder from which the domed top was formed by reheating and tooling, by a plain male plunger. Two moldmarks visible on dome. Joined by a wafer of the same green alabaster glass to the standard and the stepped base. Standard and base pressed in similar mold with eighteen beads on each side plus one at each corner and in the same manner as the base of 1966.19. Rough pontil mark around bottom edge of hollow standard.

Label TextDesigned to burn whale oil or burning fluid, the lamp has a font of green glass in a classical urn shape set on a milky white baluster stem. The rise of the Greek revival style of architecture in the 1830s and 1840s kept classical designs for home furnishings fashionable.Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 383, pl. 194, no. 1.

Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1954, p. 74, no. 105.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, OH, 1969, repr. p. 105.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 296, fig. 250, second from right.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 223, no. 870, colorpl. 12, second from left.

Spillman, Jane Shadel, Glass Bottles, Lamps, and Other Objects, New York, Knopf, 1983, no. 314.

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, 1994, p. 423, no. 637, colorpl. 637, p. 255.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 142, repr. (col.).