Lamp, Burning-Fluid

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Lamp, Burning-Fluid

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1847-1860

DimensionsH: 10 13/32 in. (26.45 cm); Base W: 4 15/16 in. (12.55 cm)

MediumColorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.207

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DescriptionFont and petals at its base pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the pattern, in conjunction with a one-piece cylindrical mold that formed the upper part of the petals and a cylinder from which the domed top was formed by reheating and tooling by the Magoun patent method, by a plain male plunger. Joined by a wafer to a hexagonal standard on a scalloped base. Standard and base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger of tapered cylindrical and hexagonal form that formed the hollow interior of the standard and base and the underside of the edge of the base. Rough pontil mark around edge of opening to standard.

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. 449, no. 706.