Lamp

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Object Name: 
Lamp
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Sandwich
Accession Number: 
50.4.166
Dimensions: 
Overall H (with burner) 21 cm; Lamp H: 20 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
probably 1830-1839
Primary Description: 
Lamp. Lead glass, colorless; combination of blown-three-mold, tooled, and pressed parts; blown-three-mold font in baroque pattern GV-18--double horn of-plenty--, conical form with short sheared neck, straight sides tapering sharply from sloping shoulder to ringed ball knop above swirl-ribbed knop, pressed octagonal cone base with galleried rim and design of acanthus leaves on stippled background on under side; fitted with two-wick tin and cork burner.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1950-07-31
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown three-mold glass
pressed glass
tooling
Material: 
glass

Publications (5)

American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 46, #86; BIB# 30457
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 46, #86; BIB# 30457
Woman's day dictionary of Sandwich glass (1963) illustrated, p. 26 (row 3, far right); BIB# 98017
The Woman's Day Dictionary of American Glass (1961-08) illustrated, p. 27, top, second from left; BIB# 98018
American Glass (1948) (1948) illustrated, #1, pl. 190; by line drawing, GV-18, pl. 99; BIB# 25297