electric lamp

Object NameElectric Lamp

Maker Giometti Brothers

Made FromLead Glass, Metal

Dateabout 1903-1920

Place MadeUnited States, NY, Corning

TechniqueBlown, cut

SizeOverall H: 45.8 cm; Shade Diam: 26 cm; Base Diam: 18.5 cm

Accession Number95.4.256

Credit LineGift in memory of Atty. Claude V. Stowell from his family

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

The Cut and Engraved Glass of Corning, 1868-1940

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless lead glass, white metal; blown, cut. Mushroom shaped shade, cut in a pattern of alternating ellipses containing hobstars and sections of a chair bottom like pattern. Inverted trumped shaped base is cut in the same pattern, electric socket is of white metal and supports a ring on from which twenty-one molded and cut prisms with pointed ends hang.
Provenance

Source Mrs. Matthew Cammen - 1995-07-21

Source Matthew Cammen - 1995-07-21

Former Collection Claude V. Stowell

Former Collection Jeanette Stowell Cammen