Lamp

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Object Name: 
Lamp
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
89.4.20
Dimensions: 
H: 31 cm, W(base) 9.5 x 9.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1820-1835
Credit Line: 
Purchased with funds from the Gertrude Christman Melvin Endowment
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass, brass; blown, cut, pressed. Baluster shape font, with brass collar; cut with diamond facets and vertical flutes, attached by a wafer to a flat disk cut into an octagon, wafer below, with a hollow knop below that, larger knop below that, cut with diamond facets, small hollow knop below that, with octagonal cut disk applied to square pressed base; base with a rosette design underneath, sides of the base ground and polished; bottom surface ground; "rosette" in the base with twelve trifid ribs, which is 7 cm. across and about 2.5 cm. deep; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
W. M. Schwind Jr. Antiques, Source
1989-04-28
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Cut, Pressed
cut glass

Publications (2)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 32 (1990) illustrated, p. 196, #18; BIB# AI74245
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1989 (1990) p. 5; BIB# AI96380