4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2010.

Royal Flemish Lamp with Dancing Maidens

Manufacturer Mt. Washington Glass Co. (American, New Bedford, MA)

CultureAmerican

Date1894

MediumGlass | Bronze

DimensionsOverall: 12 x 30 3/4 in. (30.5 x 78.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number0.3240

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-6, Case 39

DescriptionThis is a lamp in two parts: the base and the shade. It is in the Royal Flemish style; nine inche high glass font on 12 inch high bronze base of two women with draped clothing around central baroque stem. The font is decorated in sections with beige and buff backgrounds of Egyptian scenes of people, camels, pyramids, palm trees and water. The shade is in a matching font, the dome shape is spherical with 1-1/2 inch straight top.

ProvenanceGrover Antiquest, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio; Purchased by Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. from Grover Antiques, July 15, 1969; Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to the Chrysler Museum, unknown date. Published ReferencesBetty B. Sisk, _Mt. Washington Art Glass plus Webb Burmese Identification and Value Guide_ (Kentucky: Collector Books, 2003), 211-212. Kenneth M. Wilson and Jane Shadel Spillman, _Mt. Washington & Pairpoint Glass_, Volume 2, exh. cat., The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 2011, 47, fig. 13-81.