Sold for:
$999
$999
Colorless Free-blown Glass Lamp with Pressed Cup Plate Base and Matching Cup Plate, attributed to the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1827-30, the lamp with drop cork tube burner, spherical font, deep star pattern cup plate base with sheaf of wheat scalloped border, accompanied by a similarly patterned but less deep cup plate, (minor base edge chips), ht. 5 1/2, cup plate ht. 3/4, dia. 3 5/8 in. Literature: A lamp with a similar deep cup plate base 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. See lot 79.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-11-03
