Lamp

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Object Name: 
Lamp
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Cambridge
Accession Number: 
94.4.158 B
Dimensions: 
H: 24.6 cm, W: 10.7 cm, D: 12 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1855-1870
Primary Description: 
Colorless, red lead glasses, brass; blown, cut. Cylindrical font, of colorless glass overlaid with red, cut in a pattern of quatrefoils within diamonds and comma-like scrolls, brass collar for screw-in burner; attached with a flat colorless wafer to a solid stem and spreading foot, also overlaid with red, and cut in a pattern of punties on the stem, six panels on the hexagonal foot and a geometric pattern on the base.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Russell, Howell E., Former Collection
Russell, Mrs. Howell E., Former Collection
Price, Alma Blanche, Former Collection
Patterson, Ruth Cappelle, Former Collection
Price, Mabel Cate, Former Collection
Patterson, Nellie Cate, Former Collection
Cate, Maria Mitchell, Former Collection
Mitchell, Arthur Little, Former Collection
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
Colorless, red
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Cut

Publications (3)

The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 47, #66; BIB# 65446
Recent Important Acquisitions, 37 (1995) illustrated, pp. 108-109, #25; BIB# AI36371
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1994 (1995) p. 24; BIB# AI95181

Objects in Set (2)

2 Lamps
Artist:New England Glass Company
Date:1855-1870
Accession Number:94.4.158
Lamp
Artist:New England Glass Company
Date:about 1855-1870
Accession Number:94.4.158 A