Lamp, Whale-Oil
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Lamp, Whale-Oil
Place of OriginProbably eastern United States
Date1827-1830
DimensionsH: 5 in. (12.7 cm); Base Diam: 2 13/32 in. (6.1 cm)
MediumColorless glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number
1969.189
Not on View
DescriptionFont blown and finished by tooling. Joined directly to a quadruple knop that is part of the pressed base. Base pressed, probably by a bench press, upside down in a plain female mold of two vertical sections by a male plunger conforming in shape to the exterior of the hollow foot and bearing the pattern of a stippled background, bull's-eyes, and vertical ribbing around the interior perimeter of the base. Rough pontil mark.
Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 189, no. 23 (lamp with a base that appears to be like this one).
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. 314, no. 366.
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