$294
Colorless Free-blown Glass Bulb Lamp with Pressed Cup Plate Base, attributed to the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1827-30, the lamp with drop cork tube burner, button stem, deep star pattern cup plate base with sheaf of wheat scalloped border, (base crack), ht. 7 1/2 in. Literature: A similar lamp is illustrated and discussed in The Glass Industry In Sandwich Vol. 2, by Raymond E. Barlow and Joan E. Kaiser, Schiffer Publishing, p. 61, plate 2035. The text mentions because of its unusual depth "it is by far the rarest of the cup plate lamps" according to Ruth Webb Lee and James H. Rose in American Glass Cup Plates "...the plate without the lamp is rare, even in clear glass ... and believe it was made only briefly because the shape may have been impractical.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-11-03
