Lamp

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Object Name: 
Lamp
Accession Number: 
66.4.37
Dimensions: 
H: 26.6 cm, D(base): 8.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1827-1840
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. Jason Westerfield
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, pressed and cut; white metal; brass. White metal collar an opening of blown inverted baluster-shape font with cut flutes around lower part; attached by wafer to pressed columnar stem and base with three stepped circles and square plinth with ribbing on underside.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Westerfield Estate, Mrs. Jason, Source
1966-02-15
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 212, #820; BIB# 30457