CONTINENTAL BRASS REPOUSSE KEROSENE VASE LAMP, cylinder-form font holder with stamped embossed cherubs completely surrounding font in various positions, raised on four short legs, brass drop-in cylinder-form font with stylized scroll pattern to the shoulder, No. 3 collar impressed "G. H. COVELL / 1150 BROADWAY / NEW YORK". Fitted with a period setup comprising a Hink's & Co. No. 3 Duplex burner, impressed with maker's name on deflector and thumbwheel, an opal ball-form shade with multi-colored mustard yellow ground and polychrome griffin decoration in shades of pastel pink and green, brass heat ring. Non-period colorless chimney. Fourth quarter 19th century. 18 1/2" H to top of shade, 8" H to top of collar, 7 1/4" DOA base. Shade 9 1/2" H, 4" D fitter.
Published: Base Thuro - Oil Lamps II, p. 127, fig. A
Literature: Shade parallels Thuro - Oil Lamps III, p. 156, fig. D.
Exhibited: Lamp in The Great North American Kerosene Lamp Exhibit and Forum, held at the Huntington Galleries in Huntington, WV, July 24, 1983 thru November 13, 1983.
 

From the Catherine Thuro Collection, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Excellent condition, expected wear to finish. Burner with some minor corrosion, shade undamaged and with normal as-made fitter roughness, heat ring with some light denting, chimney undamaged.