Pair of Lamps, Whale-Oil
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Pair of Lamps, Whale-Oil
Place of OriginNew England
Date1827-1830
DimensionsH to top of wick tube 16.35 cm (6 7/16 in.); D base 8.8 cm (3 15/32 in.)
MediumColorless glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number
1969.191A-B
Not on View
DescriptionFont blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a medial knopped wineglass stem and wafer to a base that appears prismatic because the geometric pattern on the underside shows through the pattern on the exterior. Base pressed upside down, probably by a bench press, in a one-piece female mold bearing part of the pattern by a male plunger conforming in shape to the exterior and also bearing part of the pattern. Rough pontil mark in center of base.
Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 466, pl. 188, left.
McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 380, pl. 190, no. 3 (same pressed base with different standard and font).
The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, nos. 176 (pair with deep purple-blue knopped stems), 428.
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. 313, no. 364.
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