Lamp, Whale-Oil

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Lamp, Whale-Oil

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1835-1845

DimensionsH: 22.1 cm (8 11/16 in.); Base W: 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.31

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DescriptionFont blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a multiribbed knop to a short cylindrical platform on a short stem on a tapered, four-tiered hexagonal standard on a hexagonal base. Platform, stem, and base pressed upside down in a plain female mold of three vertical sections, by a male plunger with a tapered cylindrical end with three hexagonal sections above, two ribbed and the uppermost plain, probably with a cap ring that formed the undersurface of the perimeter of the base. Rough pontil mark on interior opposite second tier. The slightly everted lip indicates that the lamp was intended to have a threaded collar.

Published ReferencesWilson, 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. 329, no. 403.