• Whale Oil/Fluid Lamps
Lot 190

PHILADELPHIA BLOWN, CUT, AND PRESSED WHALE OIL LAMPS, PAIR

Estimate: $800 - $1,200
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Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $10
$200 $25
$500 $50
$1,000 $100
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$30,000 $2,500
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

PHILADELPHIA BLOWN, CUT, AND PRESSED WHALE OIL LAMPS, PAIR, colorless, each having a spherical/onion font cut with blazed rondels appearing as falling comets above a lower band of paired opposing angled strawberry-diamond vesicas and swags, hollow bulged stem with medial husk cut band, raised on a hand-pressed square base with square feet and a lemon squeezer underside, wafer construction, each having a later brass collar. Probably Union Glass Works, Kensington/Philadelphia, PA. 1826-1842. 9 1/4" and 9 1/2" H, 3 5/8" SQ bases. 
Literature: Closely parallels Wilson - American Glass, Vol. 1, p. 340, fig. 428. 
Catalogue Note: For a discussion on these Union lamps, see Journal of Glass Studies, Vol. 25, 1983, pp. 221-224, Kenneth M. Wilson, "Cut Glass Lamps Attributed to the Union Flint Glass Works, Kensington, Philadelphia". For an in-depth study of the Union Glass Works, see ibid, Vol. 39, 1997, pp. 93-140, Mary Margaret Cheek (Mills), "The Cooperative Venture of the Union Glass Works, Kensington, Pennsylvania, 1826-1842".

Condition

Each in excellent condition with some minor roughness to the font; each having scattered flaking and chipping around the edge and underside of the base, one example having a moderate chip to one base corner; each having some light wear.

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From the collection of the late Richard and Lesley Harris, Branchville, NJ.