Wooden Pattern Mold for Pressed Glass Lamp Font and Base, America, mid-19th century.
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Wooden Pattern Mold for Pressed Glass Lamp Font and Base, America, mid-19th century. Carved patterns for casting mold joined with keyed brass collar fitted to round-tenoned ends, the pedestal base with scalloped rim below faceted tapered column, and the font relief-carved with six arched panels centering a large bull's eye and fleur-de-lys motif, diam. 4 1/2, ht. 10 in. Footnotes: Provenance Collection of Dorothy-Lee Jones Ward (1948-2022), Wellesley, Massachusetts, and Sebago, Maine. Literature For examples of pressed glass with similarly patterned base and font, see Raymond E. Barlow and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich vol. 2 (Atglen: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1989), cat. no. 2276 and 2287. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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