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Table Lamp, Rombic

This is a table lamp.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Collection of John C. Waddell as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

It is dated ca. 1928. Its medium is glazed earthenware.

The Ruba Rombic line of glassware designed by Reuben Haley for the Consolidated Lamp & Glass Company and patented in 1928 consisted of more than forty forms, from decanters, vases, and candlesticks to drinking glasses and plates, all available in a variety of colors. The line became the company’s most popular offering. Haley also designed a similar shape for ceramic lamps for the Muncie Potteries.

It is credited Collection of John C. Waddell.

A transparent, light brown molded glass bottle with irregular, jagged geometric shapes and angles, a narrow, short neck, and a flared stopper, resembling crinkled paper wrapped around an object and tied with a band near the top. The coloration of the faceted glass varies throughout, though generally lighter at the bottom and darker above the neck. The glass appears substantially weighted and bottom of the bottle is flat. Though called a 'toilet bottle,' it is intended for cologne, or eau de toilette (toilet water).

Ruba Rombic Toilet Bottle Bottle, ca. 1928
glass.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2018-22-21-a,b

Seth Thomas mantle clock painted in black and gold. The clock has stepped sides and the black and gold are painted to give the sense of skyscrapers. In each corner of the white clock face there is a triangular design. Instead of numbers there are somewhat fanciful shapes of human beings. Very small black marquis shapes separate the ‘numbers”.

Object ID #907214089
painted and gilded wood.
Collection of John C. Waddell.
53.2016.1

An angular, triangular-shaped mirror and hairbrush against a dark grey background. The triangle of the mirror points downwards and is framed by a silver triangle. The outline of two smaller triangles hang from its bottom point. The triangle of the brush also points downwards with pale brown thick bristles. It is also framed by a silver triangle with the outline of two smaller triangles hanging from the bottom point.

Object ID #907214135
silverplate, mirror glass, boar bristles.
Lent by Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The John Axelrod Collection, 2014.1290.1-2.
54.2016.1a,b

Its dimensions are

H x W x D (to top of threaded steel nipple): 19.1 × 8.9 × 8.9 cm (7 1/2 × 3 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.) H to top of ceramic base: 7 in. Height to top of shade: 11 in.

It has the following markings

Impressed on underside: “MUNCIE”

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2oaH9i/
Accession Number 53.2016.2
Object ID 907214093