Lamp

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Object Name: 
Lamp
Accession Number: 
70.4.72
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 25 cm, Diam: 12.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1825-1830
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Wakefield
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown and pressed. Spherical font; horizontal internal ridge; attached by a bladed knop to a hollow mushroom-shape knop above another bladed knop attached to a four-sided hollow standard pressed in four steps with ribbing on the inside.
Provenance: 
Wakefield, Kenneth, Source
Wakefield, Ruth, Source
Color: 
Material: 
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 200, #783; BIB# 30457