Pair of Lamps

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Pair of Lamps

Place of OriginUnited States, probably New England

Date1815-1825

DimensionsH (with wick tubes): 5 9/32 in. (13.4 cm); H (without wick tubes): 4 31/32 in. (12.6 cm); Base W: 2 17/32 in. (6.4 cm)

MediumColorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.134A-B

Not on View

DescriptionFont blown, by the blow-over and crack-off process, in a mold (McKearin G.I-7, Type 2) of three vertical sections, each continuing from the plain base plate to the opening of the font to form the body and shoulder. Short vertical extension above the font for holding a cork burner finished by grinding. Joined directly to the base. Base pressed in a two-piece female mold, with hinge and opening at diagonally opposite corners, by a patterned male plunger. No pontil mark on the unground base. Tin double-wick tube cork supports whale oil burner.

Published ReferencesReferences to glass classifications established in McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948.

McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., G.I-7, p. 247, pl. 84.

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. 245, no. 311.