Lamp, Burning-Fluid

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

ManufacturerPossibly Union Flint Glass Works (American, 1826-1844)

Date1835-1840

DimensionsH (with burner): 31.1 cm (12 1/4 in.); H (without burner): 27.5 cm (10 13/16 in.); Base W: 10.0 cm (3 15/16 in.); Base Diag: 13.2 cm (5 3/16 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.97B

Not on View

DescriptionFont and standard blown and finished by tooling, then joined by two wafers and a bladed knop. Joined to a short spherical standard. Joined by a wafer to a two-step octagonal cushion above the base. Standard and base pressed in the same mold and by the same plunger, modified, as 1965.20. Slightly rough pontil mark on undersurface of perimeter of base. Brass collar machined and threaded, with brass double-wick burner for burning fluid.

Published ReferencesArt Glass, repr. p. 103.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 215, nos. 830, 831.

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, NH, authors, vol. 2, 1989, repr. p. 59, no. 2030.

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. 343, no. 432.