Lamp, Burning-Fluid

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Lamp, Burning-Fluid

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1835-1845

DimensionsH: 13 in. (33.0 cm); Base W: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.99B

Not on View

DescriptionBulb font blown and finished by tooling. Joined by three heavy wafers to a standard and base. Standard and base pressed in the same mold and in the same manner as 1967.100. Rough pontil mark on interior of base opposite second step. The lower part of the font roughed. Pewter collar machined and threaded, with double-wick brass-and-pewter burner for burning fluid and brass chain and two caps attached.

Published ReferencesBarlow, 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. 70, no. 2060, left.

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. 334, no. 417.