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Lamp

ManufacturerPossibly Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Date1855-1865

DimensionsH: 11 27/32 in. (30.1 cm); Base W: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)

MediumAlabaster glass, blue font and white standard and base

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.131

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DescriptionFont pressed upright in a female mold probably of three vertical sections, in conjunction with a one-piece cylindrical mold from which the domed top was formed by reheating and tooling by the Magoun patent method, by a plain male plunger. Joined by a wafer of blue glass to a columnar standard and a stepped base. Standard and base pressed in the same manner as that used for 1969.155 but in a different mold of the same pattern with a longer shaft and eighteen beads between the corner beads in the band between the plinths.

Published ReferencesWilson, 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. 425, no. 643, colorpl. 643, p. 256.