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9:00 AM PT - Feb 19th, 2012
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Lamp, Parrot, Consolidated Lamp Co., c. 1940 -- A very nice example in working condition.
Size: H. 13.25" x L. 4.5" x W. 4.5" Weight: 4lbs Condition: In working condition, has repaired foot on base. The Consolidated Lamp and Glass Company started in Fostoria, Ohio, through the merger of Fostoria Shade and Lamp Company with Wallace and McAffee Company in 1893. The Company moved to Coraopolis, Ohio where the factory burned only two years later. At this time Consolidated Glass was producing art glass bowls and vessels yet their main line was globes, shades and upscale lamps. In 1925 the glass designer, Reuben Haley, left working at U.S. Glass and began his own design company in space rented from Consolidated. The Paris international exposition of 1925 sent to several U.S. cities 400 objects on tour from that show that featured art deco design. Several works by Rene Lalique were seen by Americans and a market was established for similar works designed by Haley. Some of his designs were direct copies of Lalique pieces that were produced by Consolidated. These art glass works they called Martele (or hand wrought) glass at the same time that Gorham in Providence was producing hammered silver called Martele. Consolidated produced art glass that was also called the Selden line after Howard Selden who held rights to the Foxglove pattern glass. By the 1920s, Consolidated developed a glass based on early or seventeenth century Spanish glass called Catalonian glass. This was a hand blown ware that was dusted with raw glass as the blowpipe came from the glory hole and was reinserted and swirled in the molten glass of the furnace and heat to produce bubbled and corrugated surfaces to render a hand crafted rather than machine produced vessels. The Catalonian (Old Spanish) wares [made betweem 1927 through the 1940s] were produced in colors of honey, jade, amethyst, ruby stained on crystal, ruby or red glass, blue with ceramic wash and rainbow or multicolors washed on crystal. Another successful product was the Ruba Rombic wares, the designs of which were introduced in 1928. These are deco-inspired angular and cubistic glass vessels that today are eagerly sought by collectors. Another popular glass pattern from Consolidated featured dancing nudes, originally named Dancing Nymph. These decorative figural pieces were inspired, it seems, from Lalique glass came in many different colors— French clear crystal, frosted crystal, green, frosted green, pink ruby flashed, white and various other ceramic colors. Consolidated Glass closed the plant for a time in the early thirties in order to survive losses. At that time, Kenneth Haley, the son of Reuben Haley (who died in 1933) moved the molds that held his father’s designs to the Phoenix Glassworks to continue production. Phoenix continued the Martele designs under the name of Phoenix Reuben-Line from 1933-1934. Consolidated reopened and recalled their molds and continued the Martele design line until 1963 when the company closed. Subsequently other American glass companies have imitated or used molds and designs inspired by or cast from those of Consolidated Lamp & Glass. Condition reportIn working condition, has repaired foot on base.
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