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Primary Description:
Opaque pink glass shading to yellow, "Burmese"; lead glass with some uranium, brass, white metal; blown, enameled. Bulbous hollow base of Burmese glass, decorated with applied tiny reddish-brown glass beads in a branching coral-like pattern. This bowl, open at both ends, contains a cylindrical white metal container for kerosene and is mounted on a cast brass tripartite foot. The fuel container fits inside the glass bowl and the brass collar and kerosene burner is attached to it. The wick raiser is marked "MT.W.G.C." Burmese color chimney is pear-shaped and the top section is acid-etched.
Exhibitions (1)

Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2011-05-19 through 2011-12-31
Changing Exhibitions Gallery
Publications (4)
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000)
illustrated, p. 49, #69;
BIB# 65446