E. P. DODGE FONT KEROSENE STAND LAMP, colorless pyriform font, shoulder embossed "E. P. DODGE. 8 TREMONT ST. BOSTON", fluted brass stem with traces of gilt decoration, double-step marble base with cast brass ornamentation, No. 1 fine-line collar. Fitted with a No. 1 C. A. Van Kirk lip burner, thumbwheel marked "C. A. VAN KIRK & CO / PATENT JULY 17 / 1860", spring-loaded set screw for securing the chimney, colorless and frosted globular-form shade with flared top rim, intricately engraved foliage pattern to the medial, colorless cut Colonial-style patterned prisms with brass shoulder support ring. Non-period lip chimney. Third quarter 19th century. 18 3/8" H to top of shade, 12 3/4" H to top of collar, 5 1/4" SQ foot. Shade 7" H, 4 7/8" D fitter.
Published: Thuro - Oil Lamps III, p. 37, fig. F.
Exhibited: The Great North American Kerosene Lamp Exhibit and Forum, held at the Huntington Galleries in Huntington, WV, July 24, 1983 thru November 13, 1983.

Font undamaged and with some interior cloudiness to lower body, marble steps with expected flakes/roughness. Burner and chimney undamaged, shade fitter with a minor flake and some normal as-made roughness, prisms with some minute imperfections.