NEW BEAUTY / EMBOSSED BEADS AND RIBS SPATTER GLASS MINIATURE LAMP, amber with opal and burgundy red flakes/tortoise shell, vertical ribbing pattern, compressed urn-form font, slightly brighter matching patterned chimney-shade, period collar. Fitted with a period Hornet burner. Circa 1900. 8 3/4" H to top of chimney-shade, 4" H to top of collar, 2 3/8" D base.
Undamaged font, chimney-shade fitter and top each with a small shallow chip which does not affect the profile and possibly as made, collar with a small hole. Burner lacking deflector and with other imperfections.
Literature: Parallels Smith - Miniature Lamps I, p. 161, fig. 367.
Provenance: Barbara and Moe Tourison collection.

Undamaged font, chimney-shade fitter and top each with a small shallow chip which does not affect the profile and possibly as made, collar with a small hole. Burner lacking deflector and with other imperfections.