Lot 459

CUT-OVERLAY QUATREFOIL AND STAR KEROSENE STAND LAMP

Estimate: $400 - $600
Sold for
$416.50
Sold Price includes BP

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CUT-OVERLAY QUATREFOIL AND STAR KEROSENE STAND LAMP, opaque white to cranberry, large compressed pyriform font with a complex pattern of cuts including stars, quatrefoils, prisms, and ovals, wafer construction, raised on a ribbed brass stem and double-step marble base with stamped brass ornamentation, period No. 2 brass collar. Fitted with a No. 3 "SOLAR" slip burner. Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. and others. 1860-1880. 12 1/2" H to top of collar, 4 3/4" SQ base.
Literature: Parallels Barlow/Kaiser - The Glass Industry in Sandwich, Vol. 2, p. 216, fig. 2378.
Provenance: From the George Foree collection, Overland Park, KS.

Condition

Undamaged with some scattered surface wear; expected light roughness to the edges of the marble. Having some scattered minute open bubbles and discolored inclusions, all as made.