Lamp, Whale-Oil
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Lamp, Whale-Oil
ManufacturerPossibly
Boston and Sandwich Glass Works
(American, 1826-1888)
ManufacturerPossibly
New England Glass Company
(American, 1818-1888)
Date1830-1835
DimensionsH: 8 1/32 in. (20.4 cm); Base Diam: 4 1/32 in. (10.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)
MediumColorless glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number
1969.143
Not on View
DescriptionFont blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a multiribbed knop to an octagonal base bearing a pattern of acanthus leaves against a stippled background on its underside. The vertically ribbed solid knop may have been an added gather applied between the two parts, or it may be the upper part of the pressed base tooled to knop form. Base pressed upside down in a one-piece plain female mold by a male plunger bearing all of the pattern.
Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 467, pl. 190, right.
The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, no. 282 (pair).
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. 318, no. 375.
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