Burmese Kerosene Lamp with Coraline Decoration

Object Name: 
Burmese Kerosene Lamp with Coraline Decoration

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Object Name: 
Burmese Kerosene Lamp with Coraline Decoration
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, New Bedford
Accession Number: 
95.4.263
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 45.2 cm, Diam (max): 20.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1887-1890
Web Description: 
Unfortunately, the shade for this lamp has been lost, but the Burmese chimney remains. Coraline, an Art Glass that was popular from about 1883 to the late 1890s, was decorated with designs that resembled branches of natural coral. Mt. Washington’s Coraline is very rare, and it is difficult to identify unless it appears on one of the company’s documented glass shapes.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Lindstrom's Furniture, Source
1995
Category: 
Art Glass
Color: 
pink
yellow
Technique: 
mold-blowing
enameling
Material: 
lead glass
brass
uranium
metal
enamel

Description

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)

Mt. Washington and Pairpoint: American Glass from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2011-05-19 through 2011-12-31
Changing Exhibitions Gallery

Publications (4)

Mt. Washington and Pairpoint Glass (2005) illustrated, p. 275, Figs. 11-26, 27, 28; BIB# 88066
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 49, #69; BIB# 65446
Recent Important Acquisitions, 38 (1996) illustrated, p. 242, #29; BIB# AI97737
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1995 (1996) illustrated, pp. 10-11; BIB# AI95180