Lamp

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Object Name: 
Lamp
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
84.4.69
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 27.4 cm, Diam: 9.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1813-1830
Credit Line: 
Gift in memory of Charles H. and Alice Wendt Voorhees
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, pressed. Spherical font with horizontal air trap at "equator" attached to a hollow hour-glass like stem with a wide flat ring around upper portion and a band of nipped chain decoration around lower; attached to square pressed "lemon squeezer" base with 27 pointed flutes underneath and pontil mark in center.
Provenance: 
Voorhees Collection, Charles H. and Alice Wendt, Former Collection
Webster, Elizabeth Voorhees, Source
Color: 
Technique: