VICTORIAN METAL FLORAL AND QUILTED VASE LAMP, globular-form quilted vase holder with copper finish, applied metal floral sprigs with branches intertwining as double handles, raised on four legs with figural paw feet, lined with a brass font holder, brass drop-in font with unpatterned shoulder and impressed on the base for Bradley & Hubbard, colorless opalescent hobnail shade with folded and crimped rim. Fitted with a previously electrified Bradley & Hubbard duplex burner, non-period colorless chimney. Probably Meriden Britannia Co. Fourth quarter 19th century. 14 1/2" H to top of shade, 6 3/4" H to top of collar, 6" SQ overall foot.
Literature: Parallels Thuro - Oil Lamps III, p. 157, fig. A.

Very good overall condition, vase and font liner each with a drilled hole, font with a drilled hole to sidewall, shade rim with a loss to edge. Burner deflector with alterations and component losses associated with electrifying, chimney undamaged.