Pair of Lamps, Whale-Oil

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Pair of Lamps, Whale-Oil

ManufacturerProbably Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Date1829-1835

DimensionsH 25.4 cm (10 in.); W base 7.8 cm (3 1/16 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.70A-B

Not on View

DescriptionConical font blown and finished by tooling. Joined by three wafers and a knop to the base. Base pressed upside down in a female mold of four vertical sections bearing the pattern by a plain male plunger that formed the hollow square interior of the pedestal base, ending with four sloping sides in a square at the end of the base and a small boss in the center, and also formed the flat underside of the base with a shallow boss at each corner on which the lamp rests. Brass 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. 380, pl. 193, no. 2 (ribbed conical font).

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 254, fig. 214B (ovoid font); p. 257, fig. 215C, left (globular font).

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 192, no. 46.

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. 202, no. 790, colorpl. 11.

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. 317, no. 372.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 57, no. 46, repr. p. 32.