Lamp, Whale-Oil

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

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

Date1813-1830

DimensionsH (to top of wick tubes): 27.0 cm (10 5/8 in.); H (to rim): 25.8 cm (10 5/32 in.); Base W: 8.7 cm (3 7/16 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1982.161

Not on View

DescriptionFont blown and finished by tooling, with a mercurial ring formed by an air trap. Joined by an applied pressed ribbed mushroom-form collar to the blown and tooled inverted baluster standard. Applied band of raspberry prunts on standard. Joined by a wafer to a domed base on a square plinth with a lemon-squeezer design on the underside. Base pressed by a hand press. Fitted with a double-wick cork-supported tin burner for whale oil.

Published ReferencesWilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, pp. 224-226, fig. 184.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 28, no. 25.

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. 290, no. 321.