PAIRPOINT PANELLED DELFT-DECORATED OPAL MINIATURE LAMP, opaque white with blue and gray enamel decoration of windmills and sailboats,, twelve-panel skirted font with beaded top and scroll embossing to base, underside of font with blue stamp "DELFT", matching twelve-panel ball-form shade with beaded top, period collar. Fitted with a Plume & Atwood Acorn burner, colorless chimney. Pairpoint Mfg. Co. Circa 1896. 8 1/4" H to top of shade, 4 3/4" H to top of collar.
Literature: Parallels Smith -
Miniature Lamps II, p. 148, fig. 267.
Provenance:Glass deaccessioned by Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT. All proceeds will go toward the museum's Collections Acquisition Fund.
Condition
Lamp undamaged, shade rims with normal as-made minute flakes/roughness, top rim with original decoration. Burner with a separation, chimney undamaged.