Lamp

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Object Name: 
Lamp
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
72.4.27
Dimensions: 
H: 28.5 cm, W (base): 9.6 cm x 9.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1813-1830
Credit Line: 
Gift of Preston Bassett
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown font, pressed base. Spherical blown font with horizontal air-trap; attached by broad circular disk to straight hollow blown stem with six rows of rigaree decoration around; stem attached by broad disk to square pressed hollow base with fluting underneath.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
Bassett, Preston, Source
1972-03-27
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown font, pressed base

Exhibitions (1)

New England Glass Company, 1818-1888
Venue(s)
Toledo Museum of Art 1963 through 1963

Publications (3)

American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 27, #23; BIB# 30457
The Evolution of the American Glass Lamp (1967-02) p. 1467, fig. 6; BIB# AI82577
The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888 (1963) illustrated, p. 57, p. 73 #189; BIB# 27488