2-part Pressed Lamp

Object Name: 
2-part Pressed Lamp

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Object Name: 
2-part Pressed Lamp
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
68.4.464
Dimensions: 
H: 24.8 cm, D(base): 6.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1840-1860
Primary Description: 
Greenish-blue glass; metal cap with parallel wicks; pressed. Conical-shape font with six oval "loops" around sides; applied by wafer to hollow hexagonal standard ending in hollow square base.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Esterly, Louise S., Source
Neal, L. W., Former Collection
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
green
blue
Technique: 
pressing
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 220, #850, pl. 12; BIB# 30457