Lamp, Whale-Oil

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Lamp, Whale-Oil

Place of OriginProbably Eastern United States

Date1830-1835

DimensionsH: 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm); Base W: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)

MediumFont and knops: colorless glass; base: colorless glass with a greenish tinge

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.203

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DescriptionConical font blown and finished by tooling. Joined by two bladed knops and one cushion knop to the short stem above the base of three plain circular steps on a square plinth with cusped corners. Base pressed in a plain one-piece female mold by a male plunger of domed form with a plain end and the sides cut to form ten triple-sectioned wedges, with a flat cusped square above with ribbed edges and a slightly stepped shoulder to outline the ribbing and produce the flat undersurface of the perimeter of the base. Rough pontil mark in center of base. The vertical lip indicates that this lamp was intended to be fitted with a cork-supported tin burner.

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. 321, no. 383.