Toothpick or match holder
Classification:
Date:
1875-1900
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 5/8 x 2 3/8 in. ( 6.7 x 6 cm )
Description:
Blue pressed lead glass match or toothpick holder in the form of an ovoid vase with three scrolling foliate legs and rim border of flowers.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.669
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
23985
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil lamp
Classification:
Date:
1840-1880
Medium:
Glass, brass
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/4 x 2 5/8 in. ( 10.8 x 6.7 cm )
Description:
Colorless pressed lead glass oil lamp; bell-shaped font with molded vertical bands of diagonal ribs applied loop handle with crimped end; threaded brass collar and single wick holder.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.691
Gallery Label:
These lamps are known as hand lamps or night lights. According to the accession records, this is a camphene lamp that burned a fluid made from a distillate of camphor.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1880
eMuseum Object ID:
23984
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil night lamp w/wick
Classification:
Date:
1840-1880
Medium:
Glass, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. ( 10.8 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Colorless pressed lead glass oil lamp; bell-shaped font with applied loop handle with crimped end; threaded brass collar and single wick holder.
Credit Line:
Gift of Marguerite Weidenman
Object Number:
1946.112
Gallery Label:
These lamps are known as hand lamps or night lights. According to the accession records, this is a camphene lamp that burned a fluid made from a distillate of camphor.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1880
eMuseum Object ID:
23983
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil lamp
Classification:
Date:
1840-1880
Medium:
Glass, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 x 3 1/2 in. ( 15.2 x 8.9 cm )
Description:
Colorless pressed lead glass oil lamp; bell-shaped font with applied loop handle with crimped end; threaded brass collar and single wick holder.
Object Number:
INV.6355
Gallery Label:
These lamps are known as hand lamps or night lights. According to the accession records, this is a camphene lamp that burned a fluid made from a distillate of camphor.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1880
eMuseum Object ID:
23982
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Covered butter dish: lion
Classification:
Date:
1880-1910
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/2 x 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. ( 11.4 x 15.9 x 9.5 cm )
Description:
Opaque white pressed glass covered butter dish; flat cover with recumbent lion on top; oval dish decorated with leafy plants and inscription "THE BRITISH LION" on both sides.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.744ab
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
23977
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cup plate
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1835
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. ( 1.3 x 8.9 cm )
Description:
Colorless pressed lead glass cup plate; circular form with scalloped edge; in well, three-masted side-wheel steamer (the Chancellor Livingston) with with stippled rigging and curved flag, with stippled foreground, with inscription above and below ship; on interior rim, pattern of shields, stippled hearts, scrolls, and stars, on stippled ground; rope table ring (Lee-Rose 631).
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1940.388
Marks:
pressed: in well: "CHANCELLOR/LIVINGSTON"
Gallery Label:
The Chancellor Livingston was a paddle-wheel steamboat with auxiliary sails that operated between New York and Providence, R.I. until it was dismantled in 1834. The cup plate may commemorate the destruction of the ship.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
23976
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil lamps (pair)
Classification:
Date:
1810-1840
Medium:
Glass, brass
Dimensions:
each: 7 x 5 in. ( 17.8 x 12.7 cm )
Description:
Colorless glass oil lamps with blown font and cylindrical tooled stem; font cut with eight ovals around opening and eight above stem; stem has single knop and is attached to circular base; brass cuff around opening in font.
Object Number:
INV.3819ab
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
23975
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil lamp
Classification:
Date:
1810-1840
Medium:
Glass, brass
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 5 in. ( 17.8 x 12.7 cm )
Description:
Colorless glass oil lamp with blown font and cylindrical tooled stem; font cut with eight ovals around opening and eight above stem; stem has single knop and is attached to circular base; brass cuff around opening in font.
Object Number:
INV.3819b
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
23974
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil lamps (pair)
Classification:
Date:
1835-1840
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
overall: 10 3/4 x 3 x 3 in.
Description:
Two colorless lead glass oil lamp with blown font and pressed base; cylindrical font with pewter threaded collar joined by annular wafer to inverted baluster joined by annular wafer to square base with two lobed tiers; font decorated with unpolished stone wheel engraving of a meandering chain of circles and four stylized leaf sprays; lamp broken into two pieces at wafer between base and font.
Object Number:
INV.4012ab
Gallery Label:
The engraved decoration closely parallels that on a lamp and a compote at the Toledo Museum ("American Glass" Cat. Nos. 408 and 199). The compote has been tentatively attributed to Boston and Sandwich Glass Works.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
23973
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil lamp
Classification:
Date:
1835-1840
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 3/4 x 3 x 3 in. ( 27.3 x 7.6 x 7.6 cm )
Description:
Colorless lead glass oil lamp with blown font and pressed base; cylindrical font with pewter threaded collar joined by annular wafer to inverted baluster joined by annular wafer to square base with two lobed tiers; font decorated with unpolished stone wheel engraving of a meandering chain of circles and four stylized leaf sprays.
Object Number:
INV.4012a
Gallery Label:
The engraved decoration closely parallels that on a lamp and a compote at the Toledo Museum ("American Glass" Cat. Nos. 408 and 199). The compote has been tentatively attributed to Boston and Sandwich Glass Works.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
23972
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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