Lamp

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Object Name: 
Lamp
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
68.4.470
Dimensions: 
H: 21.8 cm, D(base): 6.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1840-1860
Primary Description: 
Green glass; metal collar; pressed. Conical-shape font; metal collar at top; with six oval "loops" around sides, applied by wafer to hollow hexagonal standard ending in hollow square base.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Esterly, Louise S., Source
Neal, L. W., Former Collection
Color: 
green
Technique: 
pressing

Publications (1)

American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 220, #854, pl. 12; BIB# 30457