RIBBED SWIRL SPATTER GLASS KEROSENE MINIATURE LAMP, cased opal with multi-color flakes of pink, orange, and yellow, ball-form font, colorless applied base with five raised toes, matching patterned chimney-shade with a flaring rim, No. 1 Taplin-Brown collar. Fitted with a period slip burner and colorless slip chimney. Fourth quarter 19th/early 20th century. 8 1/2" H to top of shade, 4 1/2" H to top of collar, 3 1/2" D base.
Base undamaged; shade having a sizeable vertical crack, some scattered flaking to the rims and fitter of the chimney, brass elements having overall wear.
Provenance: From the Robert and Patricia Ruf collection, Reno, NV.

Base undamaged; shade having a sizeable vertical crack, some scattered flaking to the rims and fitter of the chimney, brass elements having overall wear.