Lamp, Whale-Oil

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Lamp, Whale-Oil

ManufacturerPossibly Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

ManufacturerPossibly New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

ManufacturerPossibly Phoenix Glass Works (American, 1819 or 1820-1870)

ManufacturerPossibly South Boston Flint Glass Works (American, 1813-1827)

Date1815-1830

DimensionsH (to top of wick tubes): 3 15/32 in. (8.8 cm); H (to rim): 3 3/16 in. (8.1 cm); Base Diam: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.10

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DescriptionWine glass-shaped font: blown and finished by tooling; short cylindrical stem drawn from the bowl. Joined by an applied medial button knop to a tooled, slightly conical foot. Small, rough, solid pontil mark. Fitted with a single tin-and-cork whale-oil burner.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 162, pl. 58A, no. 3 (similar lamp and burners).

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, pp. 248-249, fig. 209.

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. 188, no. 165.