RIB SWIRL ART GLASS MINIATURE LAMP, persimmon, ball-form font, dark honey amber applied base with five raised toes and body supported with five leaf ornaments, each with a pressed ribbed pattern, panel-optic umbrella-form shade, period collar. Fitted with a period Nutmeg burner, incorrect sized spider shade holder, colorless slip chimney. Fourth quarter 19th/early 20th century. 7 3/4 H to top of shade, 4 1/4" H to top of collar, 3 3/4" DOA base.
Literature: Parallels Smith - Miniature Lamps I, p. 219, fig. 539.
Provenance: The collection of Larry Spradley, Beaumont, TX.

Font undamaged, one ornament with a tip loss, two toe tips with chips and minor roughness to several others, shade fitter with minor flakes/roughness, most probably as made, top with a shallow exterior chip and an interior chip along with a minute flake. Burner lacking deflector, shade holder with denting and alterations, chimney undamaged.