Lamp, Whale-Oil

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Lamp, Whale-Oil

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1835-1845

DimensionsH (with burner): 28.1 cm (11 1/16 in.); H (without burner): 27.3 cm (10 3/4 in.);
Base W: 8.2 cm (3 7/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass with a yellowish tinge.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.98B

Not on View

DescriptionMade in the same manner as 1967.99, but with a smaller base and the font not roughed. Rough pontil mark. Pewter collar machined and threaded, with a double-wick pewter-and-tin burner for whale oil and wicks.

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. 69, no. 2059.

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. 335, no. 418.