Sparking Lamp

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Object Name: 
Lamp
Title: 
Sparking Lamp
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Sandwich
Accession Number: 
55.4.280
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 4.5 cm, Body Diam: 6.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1825-1835
Primary Description: 
Lamp. Clear glass; blown-three-mold; squat oval body or font with applied solid loop-handle and original single-tube tin burner set in cork; patterned in G IV-7 stopper mold.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown three-mold glass
applied
Material: 
glass

Publications (5)

Glass Bottles, Lamps & Other Objects (1983) pl. 291, left; BIB# 22375
Woman's day dictionary of Sandwich glass (1963) illustrated, p. 26 (row 2, 2nd from left); BIB# 98017
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 94, #5, pp. 308-309; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 94, #5, pp. 308-309; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 94, #5, pp. 308-309; BIB# 96725