Collection Highlights
Wonderful Willie! : What he and Tommy did to Spain / sketches and rhymes by L.D. Bradley.
Date:
ca. 1899
Object Number:
LIB.PZ7.B66.W6
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Kerosene burner unit
Object Number:
INV.2183b
Date:
1894-1910
Medium:
Metal, glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/8 x 2 1/4 in. ( 23.2 x 5.7 cm )
Marks:
stamped: on arms of burner unit: "PAT May 22 1894"
stamped: on burner unit shade support: "THE TWILIGHT"
stamped: on burner unit knob: "TIFFANY"
Description:
Metal burner unit for kerosene lamp attached to opaque white cylindrical glass font decorated with applied green glass with leaf formations; burner unit has two arms holding a metal ring to support the glass shade; a wick holder with adjustment knob, and a pierced gallery around the wick holder. Glass font has metal fitting at bottom which slides into lamp base.
Gallery Label:
The glass base and shade of this boudoir lamp were manufactured by Tiffany Studios, but the burner unit, patented in 1894 and called "The Twilight," was manufactured elsewhere. (An identical example at N-YHS, 1942.244a-d, is marked by P & A Manufacturing Co.) Tiffany Studios assembled these lamps and sold them in their Madison Avenue showroom.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
