Black-Amethyst Sinumbra Lamp

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Black-Amethyst Sinumbra Lamp

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

Place of OriginCambridge, Massachusetts

Date1830-1835

Dimensions17 1/2 × 6 3/4 in. (44.5 × 17.1 cm)

MediumTranslucent dark amethyst glass appearing black, pressed, with patinated copper alloy (brass) fittings and iron alloy lamp mechanism, a blown transparent colorless glass shade, ground and wheel-cut, and a transparent blown glass chimney (replaced).

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld

Object number

2016.214

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DescriptionThe Black-Amethyst Sinumbra Lamp features a pressed glass plinth base that leads to a blown classical revival column stem which is hollow and has air-intake holes. A ring-shaped brass cream-colored painted metal ring-shaped font with filler hole, the Argand burner, is attached to the glass base with plaster. The shade, with its outer surface roughened by grinding and a design of flowers and leaves cut through the roughening, rests on the metal font. The chimney is blown of clear glass and extends beyond the top of the shade.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Ken Wilson, New England Glass and Glassmaking, New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1972, p. 296.

Cf. Arlene Palmer, Glass in Early America: Selections from the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, Winterthur Museum, 1993, p. 340