Lamp
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Lamp
Place of OriginUnited States
Date1835-1845
DimensionsH: 12 5/32 in. (30.9 cm); Base Diam: 4 29/32 in. (12.5 cm)
MediumColorless glass.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number
1982.160
Not on View
DescriptionBulb font blown and finished by tooling. Joined by two knops, one multiribbed, one cushion, to the elaborate base. Base pressed in the same mold and in the same manner as 1969.192. Rough pontil mark at the mouth of the vertical section of the base. Font stone-wheel-engraved with two bunches of grapes and two grape leaves suspended from a band of half chevrons. Brass collar machined and threaded.
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. 345, no. 438.1830-1845
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