June 25, 2026: Premier Americana: Day One - 18th & 19th Century Glass & Lighting
Jeffrey S. Evans & Assoc., Inc. info@jeffreysevans.com
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PHILADELPHIA FREE-BLOWN, PRESSED, AND CUT WHALE OIL STAND LAMP, colorless, small globular form font with cut roundels topped with strawberry diamonds alternating with miters one strawberry diamond monument bases; raised on a standard featuring a free-blown hollow stem having a globular knop between bladed wafers; pressed base with three stepped rings and a square foot with light factory polished corners, underside with a domed lemon-squeezer interior; pewter collar. Fitted with a pewter and tin double-tube whale-oil burner. Union Glass Works, Kensington, Philadelphia, PA. 1830-1840. 9 1/4" H to top of collar, 3 3/8" SQ foot.
Literature: Parallels Wilson - American Glass 1760-1930, Vol. 1, p. 340, fig. 428, and p. 341, fig. 430.
Catalogue Note: For discussions on the cut glass from the Union Glass Works, see Corning Museum of Glass - 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"; and ibid, Vol. 39, 1997, pp. 93-140, Mary Margaret Cheek (Mills), "The Cooperative Venture of the Union Glass Works, Kensington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1826-1842". The present lamp parallels examples from the Toledo Museum (1964.74 and 1964.72A) illustrated in Mills' article (p. 114, fig. 22 and p. 115, fig. 24).
Very good overall condition, foot having some scattered chips/flakes, including a large chip to the underside and a small one to a corner. Burner and collar with some light marring.
The collection of Karen and Phillip Ruberry, Nottingham, MD.
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