Lamp, Whale-Oil

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Lamp, Whale-Oil

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1835-1845

DimensionsH: 9 31/32 in. (25.3 cm); Base W: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)

MediumColorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.157

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DescriptionConical font blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a wafer and a cushion knop to a short stem above an octagonal dome on a square base with extended corners. Stem and base pressed upside down in a one-piece female mold bearing the pattern by a male plunger of plain domed, octagonal, and square shape that formed the hollow base and the finely ribbed undersurface of the perimeter of the base between the plain corners. Rough pontil mark at midsection of hollow dome. 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. 329, no. 404.