Lamp, Whale-Oil

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Lamp, Whale-Oil

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1827-1830

DimensionsH (with burner): 20.0 cm (7 7/8 in.); H (without burner): 19.15 cm (7 17/32 in.); Base Diam: 8.5 cm (3 11/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.206

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DescriptionFont blown and patterned in a part-size dip mold with 12 arched flutes and finished by tooling, with a double-bladed knop at base. Joined by a cushion knop to a short cylindrical stem on a ribbed step, with a band of alternating darts and stylized foliate motifs on the rounded shoulder below, and a base with ribbed sides. Base pressed, probably by a bench press, possibly by a machine press, in a one-piece female mold bearing the pattern by a male plunger conforming to the shape of the exterior, with a ribbed lower end, a plain section opposite the foliate exterior, a band of small diamonds within a band of diamonds ending in a short plain cylinder, and a flat shoulder that formed the undersurface of the perimeter of the base. Slightly rough pontil mark in base. Double-wick cork-supported burner for whale oil.

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. 315, no. 370.