Lamp, Burning-Fluid

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Lamp, Burning-Fluid

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1835-1840

DimensionsH: 11 3/8 in. (29.0 cm); Base W: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)

MediumColorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.197

Not on View

DescriptionConical font blown and the lower part pattern-molded with twelve arched flutes; the upper part finished by tooling. Joined by a multiribbed knop to a trifid pedestal base with three paw feet. Base pressed upside down in a mold similar to that of 1982.157 and 1969.125, but with lacy details on the scrolls and foliate motifs on the curved sections of the base between the feet, by a plain male plunger. Pontil mark on interior of base at base of scrolls. Base ground to level lamp.

Published ReferencesWilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 268, fig. 220B; p. 277, fig. 240, left.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1 nos. 45, 508 (all with lacy decorated bases of the same form, probably pressed in the same mold).

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. 436.