Solar Lamp with Forged Maker Mark

Object Name: 
Solar Lamp with Forged Maker Mark

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Object Name: 
Solar Lamp with Forged Maker Mark
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Cambridge
Accession Number: 
79.4.1
Dimensions: 
H (with globe): 67.8 cm, D (globe): 24 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
probably 1960-1969 (inscription)
Primary Description: 
Red and colorless glass, marble, brass; blown and cut. Colorless spherical glass shade cut with a design of circles in ellipses (so-called peapod pattern); brass lard oil burner with center missing; mounted on top of a red overlay glass stem enameled with floral motifs; mounted on a square stepped base of brass and marble with "Thomas Leighton" deeply sandblasted into the marble.

More Info

Department: 
Modern; Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Stradlings, Source
1979-02-02
Leighton, Thomas, Former Collection
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
Red, Colorless
red
Technique: 
Blown, Cut
Inscription: 
Thomas Leighton
signature
: 
Sandblasted (a) on base

Exhibitions (1)

Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
State Hermitage Museum 1990-09-15 through 1990-10-21
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04

Publications (8)

New Marks on Old Glass (2011) illustrated, p. 5, fig 1; BIB# AI85388
Hikari no shouchu: sekai no garasu = The glass (1992) p. 158, #267; BIB# 58995
Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 22, 92, pl. 31; BIB# 33046
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, p. 52, #28; BIB# 34475
Glass Lighting in the Corning Museum (1983-06) illustrated, p. 5, fig. 7; BIB# AI10678
Glass Bottles, Lamps & Other Objects (1983) pl. 333; BIB# 22375
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1979 (1980) p. 6; BIB# AI97143
Recent Important Acquisitions, 22 (1980) illustrated, p. 96, #34; BIB# AI98082