white to cranberry/rose cased colorless pyriform font with opal spiraling threads, 11 cut large oval panels between 11 small at top and eight medium to base, raised on a ribbed columnar-form brass stem and double-step marble base with stamped brass ornamentation, colorless wafer, No. 2 fine-line collar. Fitted with a period set-up comprising an E. F. Jones No. 2 lip burner, thumbwheel marked "JONES PAT. JAN. 11.1856", 4" standard shade ring with coining to the edge, cased light ruby Oregon shade with cut and roughed foliage pattern, and a colorless lip chimney. Boston & Sandwich Glass Co., and others. 19 3/4" H to top of shade, 12 1/4" H to top of collar, 4 3/4" SQ base. Shade 7" HOA, 4" D fitter. Circa 1860-1880.
Literature: Parallels B & K II, fig. 2302 and Thuro II, p. 49r. Shade parallels Thuro I, p. 64c.
Provenance: Collection of Pat and the late Bret Morey of Griswold, CT.
including two interior small areas of extra glass, exterior casing with a broken bubble to edge of one middle panel, and a short annealing line to base,
Catalogue Note: The combination of cut overlay and latticinio striping is very rarely seen in American lighting.
Condition
Excellent condition, font undamaged with several minor manufacturing imperfections, marble with expected wear/roughness. Burner with a replaced interior clip which is adjacent to wick tube, shade fitter with some polishing, a shallow chip and expected flakes/roughness, shade ring and chimney undamaged.