Double-Plated Lamp

c. 1865

Boston and Sandwich Glass Company (American, 1825–1888)
Sandwich, Massachusetts

This kerosene-fueled lamp exemplifies the growing taste for brilliant color and elaborate surface decoration in mid-19th century lighting. The Boston and Sandwich Glass Company produced a variety of lamps and other objects of cased and cut glass. Here, clear, white, and blue glass have been layered and then cut to create an intricate design. When illuminated, the distinctive glass casts patterns of light within a room. This technique was developed by glassworkers from Bohemia (a historic region that now forms much of the Czech Republic), who brought it to the United States.

Status: On View, Gallery 173
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Boston and Sandwich Glass Company (Manufacturer)
Title: Double-Plated Lamp
Place: Sandwich (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1865
Medium: Cobalt blue, opaque white, and clear glass, gilt bronze, and marble
Inscriptions: Typed front, top-middle, on knob, in cast: "A. ROBERT".
Dimensions: H.: 97.8 cm (38 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: The Mrs. Maurice H. Mandelbaum Collection
Reference Number: 1994.5
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Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 199–200, no. 91.
Brandy S. Culp, “Double–plated Lamp,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 1 (2004), 14–15 (ill.).

Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York City, by 1994; the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994.

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