Lamp

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Object Name: 
Lamp
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
68.4.483
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18.4 cm; Base Diam: 9.4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1830-1835
Primary Description: 
Colorless, lead glass; blown and pressed. Inverted pear-shape font, blown in a mold with curving cane decoration, (the so-called "Horn-of-Plenty"); attached by bladed knop and vertically ribbed knop to octagonal stippled base with acanthus leaves.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Neal, L. W., Former Collection
Esterly, Louise S., Source
Green, Charles W., Former Collection
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown and pressed

Publications (1)

American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 46, #85; BIB# 30457