Camphene or whale oil lamp. Pressed "clambroth" white glass body. Shade with five panels of rural and urban scenes from a different lamp. Lamp electrified.
oil lamps
glass (material)
painting (coating)
porcelain
pressing
tin (metal)
cities
cityscapes (representations)
country (style)
pastoral
scalloping
Glass
Porcelain
Tin
Pressed
Painted
City View
Pastoral
Scalloped
City
Country
LAMP,OIL
Marked on panes of shade: P.P.M.
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Attributed to Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. (Glassmaker)
Plaue Porzellanmanufaktur (Manufacturer)
Sandwich, MA, USA; Plaue-on-Havel, Germany, Thuringia
20.438 x 9.75 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.276
Massachusetts (United States)
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