© Museum of Edinburgh
Cut glass oil lamp
Artist: Holyrood Flint Glassworks
Location: Museum of Edinburgh
Date: 1880
Materials: lead glass, ceramic insets, & gilt brass mounts
Dimensions: 74 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £11,250 (Total: £16,200)
Vendor: Mallet & Son Ltd
Review number: 3718 (1992)
Provenance:
Paul Jokelson Collection, New York; Mallet.
Description:
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.
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