Lamp, Whale-Oil or Burning-Fluid
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Lamp, Whale-Oil or Burning-Fluid
ManufacturerPossibly
Boston and Sandwich Glass Works
(American, 1826-1888)
Place of OriginUnited States
Date1835-1845
DimensionsH: 31.7 cm (12 1/2 in.); Base Diam: 12.0 cm (4 23/32 in.)
MediumColorless glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number
1969.192
Not on View
DescriptionConical font and standard blown and finished by tooling, then joined by a large bladed knop and two wafers. Joined by another large bladed knop and three wafers to the elaborate base. Base pressed upside down in a female mold of three vertical sections that formed all of the exterior by a male plunger with a hexagonal lower end that formed the interior of the upper section and a domed upper section that formed the interior of the lower section, bearing a pattern of fine ribs, beads, and bull's-eyes, and that probably also formed the undersurface of the perimeter of the base. Rough pontil mark at the mouth of the vertical section of the base. Font cut with eight polished flats. Brass collar machined and threaded.
Published ReferencesSpillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 203, nos. 793, 794
The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 2, nos. 1117, 1119 (two lamps with the same base but different fonts)
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. 345, no. 437.
1830-1840
1840-1850
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