CUT OVERLAY STAND LAMP, ruby cut to colorless pyriform font with foliate decoration, opaque white Hobbs base with octagonal stem, brass connector, No. 2 collar. Fitted with a period set-up comprising a Julius Ives & Co. No. 2 lip burner, thumbwheel marked "JULIUS IVES & CO.", lamp filling device adjacent to wick tube with a hinged cover and handle, cover marked "PAT. AUG 13.1861", cast brass tri-pod shade holder, marked "PATD JULY 18-65" on one petal, cut and engraved frosted ball-form shade, and lip chimney. Third quarter 19th century. 20 7/8" H to top of shade, 14 3/8" H to top of collar, 5 1/2" SQ base. Shade 6 1/8" H, 4 1/4" D fitter.
Literature: Font parallels Thuro II, p. 33n. Base as Thuro I, p. 152c. Burner and shade holder as Five Early Victorian Kerosene Lighting Catalogs, Vol. II, J. C. Ives, p. 10, top row, No. 2.
Provenance: From the collection of Abigail and the late Edward Meyer of Plantsville, CT.

Excellent condition, font with some minute wear, stem with normal glass impurities/flaws including annealing lines, open and broken bubbles, each as made, foot with flakes/roughness and a light bruise to underside, connector with short splits and minute d