Lot 457

CUT-OVERLAY AND ENGRAVED FLORAL, BERRY, AND GREEK KEY KEROSENE STAND LAMP

Estimate: $400 - $600
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CUT-OVERLAY AND ENGRAVED FLORAL, BERRY, AND GREEK KEY KEROSENE STAND LAMP, cranberry to colorless, pyriform font with and engraved vine featuring two floral medallions and loose berries, raised on a complex brass stem and a single-step marble base, period No. 1 brass collar. Fitted with a period No. 1 "E. F. JONES" lip burner, period colorless lip chimney, topped with a cranberry to colorless cut-overlay baluster-form shade with engraved Greek Key pattern. Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. and others. 1860-1880. 18 1/4" H to top of shade, 10 3/4" H to top of collar, 4" SQ base. Shade: 6 1/2" H, 3 3/8" D fitter.
Literature: Parallels Thuro - Oil Lamps II, p. 33, fig. n.
Provenance: From the George Foree collection, Overland Park, KS.

Condition

Lamp undamaged with some scattered light wear; some chipping to the chimney fitter; expected light roughness to the edges of the marble.