Crockery & glass journal . It This was first made by Wallace 5c Sons, and laterperfected by Edward Miller & Co. The great thing, about the discovery of petroleumwas the fact that it afforded in the devices that weremade to burn it opportunities for decoration hithertounobtainable. Soft-hued and shaded lamps could beplaced in nooks and corners or on pedestals with acharming effect. The founts and shades took on anartistic character, and beautiful creations wereevolved in both glass and metal, the latter being ofsuch classic form as to furnish their own excuse forornamental being, without consid
Crockery & glass journal . It This was first made by Wallace 5c Sons, and laterperfected by Edward Miller & Co. The great thing, about the discovery of petroleumwas the fact that it afforded in the devices that weremade to burn it opportunities for decoration hithertounobtainable. Soft-hued and shaded lamps could beplaced in nooks and corners or on pedestals with acharming effect. The founts and shades took on anartistic character, and beautiful creations wereevolved in both glass and metal, the latter being ofsuch classic form as to furnish their own excuse forornamental being, without considering the questionof utility. The plain, unattractive crystal oil-lamp of earlieryears, and the equally uninviting shade that once fr « . .:r .in* I. Fig- 3» surrounded the gas burner, have been supplanted byartistic specimens of modeling and decorative lamps light-giving qualities, except in speciallines, are now subordinate to its beauty. This dis-position on the part of purchasers to select specimensthat appeal principally to their sense of the artisticrather than with regard first for the illuminatingpossibilities of the pieces, has encouraged the manu-facturers to produce the most elaborate creations, asa walk through the New York wholesale district willprove. The wonderful progress in the development ofthe oil lamp was made strikingly evident to the writerone day recently while on a visit to a downtownshowroom. Alongside of an unadorned crystal handlamp, which looked almost grotesque by comparison,stood a handpainted piece of exquisite chimney top to base it measured exactly thirty-five inches. The globe was etched in a freehanddepiction of Pysche gazing into natures mirror—the brook. The scene w
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