Collection Highlights
Parure
ca. 1820
1920.11-17
Cut steel
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Luce Center
Oil lamp: twin wick
Object name
Oil lamp: twin wick
Date
1855-1865
Medium
Glass, brass, pewter
Dimensions
Overall: 12 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. ( 31.1 x 11.4 cm )
Description
Colorless pressed lead glass oil lamp; hexagonal font with domed top pressed with alternating decoration on panels consisting of a circle and a star within a circle, and a star within an oval; font joined with wafer to hexagonal baluster standard on hexagonal base; brass collar and pewter cap with splayed wick tubes with caps.
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Fannie G. Dudley and family
Object Number
1957.167b
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.
