Collection Highlights
Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)
1824
1940.202
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Oil lamp
Object name
Oil lamp
Date
1835-1840
Medium
Glass
Dimensions
Overall: 12 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. ( 30.5 x 8.9 x 8.9 cm )
Description
Colorless lead glass oil lamp with blown font and pressed base; cylindrical font with pewter threaded collar joined by annular wafer to inverted baluster joined by annular wafer to base consisting of a short lobed column on plinth of three circular steps on square base with projecting circular corners; font decorated with unpolished stone wheel engraving of a meandering chain of circles and four stylized leaf sprays; tin or pewter collar with splayed double wick holder for burning fluid with covers on chains.
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number
1965.916d
Gallery Label
The engraved decoration closely parallels that on a lamp and a compote at the Toledo Museum ("American Glass" Cat. Nos. 408 and 199). The compote has been tentatively attributed to Boston and Sandwich Glass Works.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
