BRASS SINUMBRA-TYPE STAND LAMP, worn gilt lacquered finish, circular reservoir with white paint and brass filler cap supports a simple brass prism ring, ribbed columnar stem, cast-brass connectors and stem base with ornamentation, attached to a double-step marble base. Fitted with a colorless cut and engraved shade with punty and stylized floral pattern, colorless Colonial-type pattern prisms in alternating lengths. Lamp late 19th century. Shade late 19th or 20th century. 30 1/4" H to top of shade, 22" H to top of reservoir, 7 3/8" SQ foot, shade 9 1/2" H, 10" D fitter.
Literature: Parallels Gowitt - 19th Century Elegant Lighting, p. 213 right.
Provenance: Property of a private Georgia collection.

Expected overall wear and marble with flakes/roughness. Burner lacking components and with an enlarged air-draft hole. Shade with a large glued chip to rim and fitter flakes/roughness, several prisms with normal imperfections.