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Fluid Burning Lamp

Fluid Burning Lamp

 
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Object Name: 
Fluid Burning Lamp
Department
American
Place Made: 
United States
Date: 
about 1840-1860
Color
Deep amethyst
Technique
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pressing
Dimensions: 
H: 27.7 cm, D(base): 8.5 cm
Accession Number: 
68.4.457
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Deep amethyst glass; pressed. Hexagonal font, wider at the top and fitted with a metal two-wick burner; six sides, each with a raised circle above an ellipse; joined by a wafer to a hollow square plinth base; ground and polished on bottom.
Provenance
Esterly, Louise S., Source
Neal, L. W., Former Collection

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Exhibitions

Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04
Publications
1

Publications

Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 34, 93, pl. 54; BIB# 33046
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, p. 63, #51; BIB# 34475
Glass Bottles, Lamps & Other Objects (1983) pl. 315, left; BIB# 22375
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 230, #900; BIB# 30457

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