Whale-oil lamp, 1830–40, Made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, American, Free-blown and pressed glass, H. 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm), Glass, 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
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Whale-oil lamp, 1830–40, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, American, Free-blown, pressed glass, H, 9 3/4, 24.8 cm, Glass, lamp, decorative, mercurial, ring, created, tooling, deep indentation, -molten surface, smoothing, glass, groove, viewed, outside, trapped air, silver
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