Lamp, Whale-Oil or Burning-Fluid

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Lamp, Whale-Oil or Burning-Fluid

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1855-1865

DimensionsH: 30.7 cm (12 3/32 in.); Base W: 8.85 cm (3 15/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass with a yellowish tinge.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.18A

Not on View

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 392, pl. 203, nos. 62-64 (drawings of bases).

Russell, Loris S., A Heritage of Light, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1967, p. 100, pl. 50 (font).

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. 233, no. 913 (font).

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. 449, no. 705.