Lamp, Whale Oil
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Lamp, Whale Oil
Place of OriginProbably New England
Date1830-1835
DimensionsH: 8 7/16 in. (21.4 cm); Base Diam: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 5/32 in. (3.0 cm)
MediumColorless glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number
1969.173
Not on View
DescriptionFont blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a multiribbed knop to the base. Base pressed upside down in a plain one-piece female mold by a male plunger bearing the pattern of fine ribs above four fleurs-de-lis and four five-pointed stars against a stippled background that appear on the underside of the base with a band of ribs around the edge.
Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 466, pl. 189, far right.
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. 317, no. 373.
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