Collection Highlights
Parure
ca. 1820
1920.11-17
Cut steel
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Oil lamp
Object name
Oil lamp
Date
1835-1860
Medium
Glass
Dimensions
Overall: 9 3/4 x 4 7/8 in. ( 24.8 x 12.4 cm )
Description
Colorless lead glass oil lamp; small, spherical font encircled with band of cut ovals; bobeche attaches to hollow, pressed columnar stem and trumpet-shaped base; pressed decoration consists of bands of diagonal lobes around top and bottom of column and around rim of base, ribs on column, and six stylized leaves radiate out from base of column.
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number
1965.916a
Marks
written: in ink on paper label affixed beneath base: "S"
Gallery Label
The domed top of this lamp's font was formed by using the Magoun Patent method. This method, invented by Joseph Magoun of the New England Glass Company in 1847, eliminated moldmarks by using a hinged, three-part mold to form the sides of the font and a one-piece cylindrical mold to form a cylinder that was then tooled to form the dome.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
