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Lamp

Place of OriginNew England or eastern United States

Date1830-1845

DimensionsH: 11 27/32 in. (30.1 cm); Base W: 3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm); Base Diagonal: 5 1/32 in. (12.8 cm)

MediumColorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.149

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DescriptionFont and hollow-knop stem blown and finished by tooling. Font joined by a large bladed knop and two wafers to the stem. Stem joined by three wafers to the stepped base. Base pressed in a plain female mold of one piece by a male plunger bearing a pattern of triangular ribs on the interior of the base. Rough pontil mark; traces remain on edge of interior opposite top of third step. Font cut with a pattern of strawberry diamonds and vesicas, with a blaze above each, alternating with squares of strawberry diamonds on end with a fan above each. Knop decorated with printies. Brass collar machined and threaded.

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. 201, no. 197.