Lamp, Whale-Oil

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Lamp, Whale-Oil

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1830-1835

DimensionsH (with burner): 8 3/16 in. (20.8 cm); H (without burner): 7 7/8 in. (20.0 cm); Base W: 3 11/32 in. (8.5 cm)

MediumColorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.177

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DescriptionConical font blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a bladed knop and two cushion knops to a short stem made of a tapered octagon above a square plinth with cusped corners. Base pressed by a hand press in a one-piece plain female mold by a male plunger of domed shape bearing the pattern of twenty-nine rounded tapered flutes with twenty-nine pointed ribs between them (a lemon-squeezer pattern) and the flat undersurface of the base. A fin projects downward on one side and on the two adjacent cusps and a partial fin on another side. Slightly rough pontil mark around edges of ribs. The top of the octagonal stem was deliberately twisted to the right while hot to create a slightly swirled pattern on the exterior. Fitted with a double-wick cork-supported tin burner.

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. 321, no. 382.