Pair of Lamps, Burning-Fluid

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Pair of Lamps, Burning-Fluid

Manufacturer New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Date1847-1860

DimensionsH: 32.2 cm (12 11/16 in.); Base W: 12.55 cm (4 15/16 in.)

MediumTranslucent light blue-gray non-lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.17A-B

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DescriptionFont pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the pattern of Gothic arches, in conjunction with a one-piece cylindrical mold from which the domed top and lip were formed by reheating and tooling, by the Magoun patent method, by a plain male plunger. Joined by a wafer to a hexagonal standard on a scalloped base. Standard and base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger of tapered cylindrical and hexagonal shape that formed the hollow interior of the standard and base and the underside of the edge of the base. Slightly rough pontil mark around edge of opening to standard. Brass collar machined and threaded, fitted with a brass double-wick burner for burning fluid. Font and base gilded.

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, p. 112, no. 2169.

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. 450, no. 707, colorpl. 707, p. 258.