Topic: Egyptian Lamp Base

[Keencollector]

I purchased this lamp base in U.K. and it was described as 1880/1890's Victorian.  It is a tad over 4 inches square and a little over 5 inches tall with a brass threaded insert to the top which I imagine takes a oil lamp fitting.
Base is in clear class and pharaoh's head and decoration are lightly frosted.  It has four raised feet and is hollow underneath.
Can anybody give me any information on this.  I thought it would be english but maybe it isn't.  Then again it may be a reproduction but the quality doesn't suggest that.

Thanking you for any help.
Keencollector.

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[NMott]

Ah, this one. Can we have a base shot, please?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-UNUSUAL-GLASS-OIL-LAMP-BASE-PHARAOHS-HEAD-VICTORIAN-EGYPTIAN-THEME-/251272148497?nma=true&si=eV3qaOIeukVRL%252BRDOIqNLL%252BIXig%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

[Lustrousstone]

That looks like one of the auction photos. In which case, you are breaching copyright. Please use your own photos and ask the moderators to remove this one.

Are you sure it's not a perfume atomiser?

[Keencollector]

Thanks for your replies to my enquiry.

There is a lot to learn in posting an inquiry.  My computer skills arn't the best, still learning.  I will have to work out how to contact the moderator Lustrousstone.  I don't think this item could be a perfume atomiser as it is hollow.

Regards
Keencollector.

[Lustrousstone]

There is a report to moderator link in each post. I thought you meant it was the bit to fit the burner not the bit to fit the oil font

[Keencollector]

Hello NMott,

It seems many have seen this before.  I attach a photo of the bottom, that is underneath, or did you ask for a photo of the base that the head sits on.  Hope this is a help.

Regards.

[Keencollector]

A replacement photo of item.

[agincourt17]

There was a post on GMB  regarding the ID of a pressed glass sphinx at
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,51612.msg292813.html#msg292813
(eventually attributed to St. Louis, France, and from the 1870s), with a cross reference to a candlestick version at
http://www.pressglas-korrespondenz.de/aktuelles/pdf/pk-2006-2w-christoph-sphinx-leuchter.pdf
which has a metal candleholder not dissimilar to yours,  and seems to have similar details on the base.

Could your lamp be a variant, or perhaps have had a candleholder threaded to convert it to a lampholder,  or even the candleholder remover and replaced with a lampholder in similar style?

Fred

[Keencollector]

Hello Fred,

Thanks for your research into my lamp base.  I have seen the photo's on pressglas-korrespondenz and agree there are similarities.

My base has extra four small legs which the others don't.  The base is in clear glass with the decoration in frosted glass.  I enclose a photo of threaded top.

I couldn't find the post on the web address you gave me.  Is it old or have I missed it?

Regards, Margaret.

[Keencollector]

Another photo of front view of lamp base, last one was of back.