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Circa: early 1900's
Condition: used - antique
Color: Ruby Red or Cranberry Iriridescent
Manufacturer: Fenton
It is hard to use all the words that go along with trying to describe this wonderful antique Victorian table lamp, but I will try my best. This gorgeous old oil lamp has a faint, hard to detect hint of gold iridescence, hidden within the rib optic pattern of the cranberry red glass. The pear shaped font is mounted onto an opalescent milk glass base, which is in excellent condition on the outer surface, but has a few chips on the underside. Fortunately those chips are old and out of site and represent no danger to anyone. The rib optic style of the pear shaped oil font is lovely and the combination of the cranberry red, aged brass and opalescent milk glass is truly stunning. The brass burner is an antique Queen Ann style made by Scoville in the USA and the old clear chimney is wonderfully wavy to look at or through. The lamp stands 12 inches tall without the chimney and 24 with it. I was told that someone once tried to convert this to electric, but gave up on the project.
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| If you look very very close you can see where a hole was begun on the side of one foot on the base. Had I not been told and not had my magnifier and light to help me, I would never, ever have noticed the mark. A lovely old Fenton oil lamp from a long ago Victorian time. |
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