Cut glass oil lamp

Holyrood Flint Glassworks

Museum of Edinburgh

1880

The oil lamp is the largest cameo incrusted item to come from the Holyrood Glassworks and is formed of three separate, clear, cut-glass elements. The funnel is very elaborately cut; the column encloses two cameo incrustations, one of William Shakespeare (signed by the medallist William Hackett) and the other of Sir Walter Scott.

• Medium: lead glass, ceramic insets, & gilt brass mounts
• Dimensions: 74 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £11250 ( Total: £16,200)
• ArtFunded in: 1992
• Vendor: Mallett

Provenance

Paul Jokelson Collection, New York; Mallet.

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