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Lamp

Manufacturer Bor-Haida Glass Works (Czechoslovakian)

Date1926-1927

DimensionsH: 12 1/4 in. (31.1 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/32 in. (2.8 cm); Base Diam: 4 5/16 in. (11.0 cm)

MediumNon-lead glass font, alabaster wafer, shaft, and base.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.46

Not on View

DescriptionOpaque yellow-green glass font, translucent medium blue alabaster wafe, shaft, and base. Font pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections, in the same manner as 1969.155. Joined by a wafer to the fluted columnar shaft and square base, also pressed in the same manner as 1969.155. Joined by a wafer to the fluted columnar shaft and square base, also pressed in the same manner as 1969.155. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesRuth Lee Webb, Antique Fakes and Forgeries, rev. ed., Northborough, MA, author, 1950, p. 224, pl. 117.

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. 106.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 383, pl. 194, no. 2.

Keefe, John W., "American Lacy and Pressed Glass in the Toledo Museum of Art," Antiques, vol. 100, July 1971, pp. 104-109 (Reprint 2, pp. 151-156), p. 108, repr. fig. 6, right.

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. 821, no. 1404.