1830s Whale Oil Lace Makers Blown Glass Lamp
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You are bidding on a beautiful, perfect early 1800's, 9.5" tall hand blown glass lamp commonly known as a Lace Makers Lamp because of the ball font is said to have magnified the flame - making it the choice for tasks requiring a lot of light. This type of lamp always appears to be as if an early "free-blown globe peg lamp" was placed on top of a glass candle stick. It is beautifully hand made and formed made out of 5 separate pieces, the font is a blown ball with a hollow peg with nice bubbles and swirls and is attached to an upwardly flared collar. Early oil lamps were notoriously messy and were known to drip unburned fuel down the outsides of the fonts while being used and this collar was designed to catch these drippings. The hollow, slightly pear shaped air trap standard is applied cleanly to the underside of the collar and has a primitive quality that's highly valued in early glass lamps. This is attached to a sloping base by means of a well formed wafer which is drawn to form a short column on which the standard is set. The primitive quality of the form, texture and gray tint to the glass as well as the 5 piece construction argues for either a New England region or more probably Pittsburgh manufacture. References: The Glass Industry at Sandwich v.2 pg 38 for guide to determining age American Glass plate 54 #7 for similar
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