Lamp

Mrs. Edward C. Moën

1820-1840

glass

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A clear glass oil lamp with a spherical reservoir and a curved handle is displayed against a white background. Candlestick stem on plain circular foot, with circular collar at top, supports spherical bowl on fixed peg. Circular opening on top of sphere about 1/3 diameter. C-shaped handle from shoulder of stem to base, has thumbrest with impressed dotted striations, and same decoration on leaf shape, where handle is attached to base. Gift of Mrs. Edward C. Moën