Group of New England and Midwest Free-Blown and Pressed Colorless Glass Lighting Devices, 1830-45. Comprising a sparking lamp, the blown font joined by a wafer to the circular stepped inside-ribbed and square base with outset corners; a whale oil lamp, probably Midwestern, with slightly compressed spherical font, joined by a double wafer to a ribbed hollow standard pressed with groups of four diamonds, above a ribbed and incurved square base; a whale oil lamp, the blown spherical font joined to a pressed triangular base of C-scrolls above a circular hollow plinth ribbed underneath; and a pair of candlesticks, each Lacy n. 1 nozzle joined by bladed wafers to the five-stepped circular standard above a square base with zigzag edges and rounded corners.Tallest whale oil lamp: H: 8.375 in. (to bottom of collar), Diam: 4.875 in.Candlesticks: H: 6.75 in., W: 3.5 in., D: 3.5 in.Literature: A whale oil lamp identical to the largest is discussed and illustrated in Jane Shadel Spillman, "American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass," p. 203, n. 793; a lamp identical to the Midwest lamp is discussed and illustrated on p. 210, n. 815; and an identical candlestick, p, 207, n. 804.

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8.375 x 4.875 x 4.875 in