2 Lamps

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Object Name: 
2 Lamps
Place Made: 
United States, probably New England
Accession Number: 
55.4.179
Dimensions: 
See Individual Records
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1812-1830
Primary Description: 
2 Lamps. Clear glass; free blown; conical foot with pontil marks, solid bladed knop stem, hemispherical foot with short cylindrical neck; one-tube tin burner set in cork and having original (?) wick.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
Material: 
glass
tin
cork

Publications (3)

Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 94, #3, pp. 308-309; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 94, #3, pp. 308-309; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 94, #3, pp. 308-309; BIB# 96725

Objects in Set (2)

Lamp
Date:about 1812-1830
Accession Number:55.4.179 A
Lamp
Date:about 1812-1830
Accession Number:55.4.179 B