Whale-oil lamp
Phoenix Glass Works|Thomas Cains
1830–40 · Free-blown and pressed glass · The American Wing
This lamp’s decorative “mercurial ring” was created by tooling a deep indentation in the still-molten surface and then smoothing the glass over the groove. When viewed from the outside, the ring of trapped air appears silver.
- Artist
- Phoenix Glass Works|Thomas Cains
- Date
- 1830–40
- Medium
- Free-blown and pressed glass
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of Dr. Michael Heidelberger, in memory of Nina T. Heidelberger, 1982
