Lamp, Whale-Oil
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Lamp, Whale-Oil
Place of OriginEastern United States
Date1830-1835
DimensionsH: 9 1/16 in. (23.0 cm); Base W: 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm)
MediumColorless glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number
1969.182
Not on View
DescriptionConical font blown and patterned in a part-size dip mold with eleven arched panels and finished by tooling. Joined by a multiribbed knop to a short cylindrical stem on a scrolled quatrefoil base. Base pressed in a one-piece female mold for form and for the linen-fold pattern on top of each lobe of the base by a male plunger of tapered cross section bearing the pattern of grapes and grape leaves against a herringbone-like background and terminating in a plain, shouldered quatrefoil form and a flat face with a circular indentation in each lobe that formed the undersurface of the perimeter of the base and a small boss under each lobe. Slight pontil mark on interior of base, below grapes. Brass collar appears to be stamped and is original to the lamp.
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. 319, no. 377.1835-1845
Perhaps second quarter of first century
Second half of the 1st century CE
Probably second half of first century
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