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

DescriptionFont pressed in a female mold of three vertical sections, in conjunction with a one-piece cylindrical mold from which the domed top and the lip for the collar were formed by reheating and tooling by the Magoun patent method, by a plain male plunger. Joined by a wafer to an octagonal stem on a square pedestal on a square plinth. Stem and base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger. Underside of base ground and polished. No pontil mark. Pewter collar machined and threaded.

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.