VICTORIAN DECORATED COALPORT CHINA CO. COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION KEROSENE BANQUET STAND LAMP, four-part construction, white ground with creamy yellow and gilt decorated raised scrolls and medallions patterned vase holder, jeweled-style raised decoration and cabochons of semi-precious jasper, vase holder supported by matching decorated baluster-form base, tri-form foot with curled acanthus leaves, underside of foot marked with maker's mark and "BANQUET LAMP 208306 RD / CHICAGO EXPOSITION ", interior of vase with porcelain font holder lining, matching decorated ceramic drop-in font and shoulder cover, underside with maker's mark, No. 3 brass collar. Fitted with a period setup comprising a Plume & Atwood duplex burner, colorless with frosted finish ball-form shade with acid-etched stylized floral pattern, and a colorless slip chimney. Circa 1893. 32 3/4" H to top of shade, 23 1/2" H to top of collar, 10 1/4" DOA foot. Shade 8 1/2" H, 4 1/8" D fitter.
Published: Thuro - Oil Lamps II, p. 129, fig. B. and Thuro - Oil Lamps III, p. 146, 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.

Undamaged lamp. Burner undamaged, shade and chimney each with very minute flakes/roughness to the fitters, probably as made.