whale oil lamp

Object NameWhale Oil Lamp

Made Fromlead glass, pewter

Date1825-1840

SizeOverall H: 30.5 cm; Base W: 9.8 x 9.9 cm

Accession Number84.4.95 B

Credit LineGift in memory of Charles H. and Alice Wendt Voorhees

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United States

Physical DescriptionColorless lead glass; blown, cut, pressed. (a) Ovoid font with pewter collar and double wick whale oil burner; cut flutes around blown font; attached by a wide bladed knop to a solid knop above a hollow inverted baluster shaped star section with cut flutes attached by a wide bladed knop to a pressed square foot ribbed underneath with a pontil mark up inside. (B) is identical, but slightly larger.
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