Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2384Location: BostonDate / Time: November 03, 2007 3:00PM
Description:
Colorless Free-blown and Pressed Glass Whale Oil Lamp, Germantown, (now part of Quincy),Massachusetts, c. 1810, the tapered font with twisted fluting, supported on a pressed glass base, whale oil drop burner, (minor chips on base skirt),ht. 8 1/4 in.
Literature: Colonial Lighting by Arthur H. Hayward, 1962, Dover Publications, p.114, plate 81, #145.
Estimate $150-200