Gone With the Wind Lamp Antique Hurricane Lamps

I thought you might be interested in what some of the old and odd antique Gone With The Wind lamps looked like. These were made long before the movie but, in essence, the basic design of hurricane lamps really haven’t changed much over time. A bulbous base to hold oil, an ornate glass shade and a clear chimney to protect the flame from blowing out.

The thing is about hurricane lamps is that even though they are all basically constructed the same their shapes and hand painted decorations can be so different. The one on the right look pretty much what you’d expect a classic Gone With The Wind lamp to look like with its’ glass base and shade.

The one below though is even more unique in that it has a brass base which was really probably a lot more common.

It also had to make the lamp a lot more durable too. With that said, check out these lamps.

Look at this last one though. It’s one of the original Tiffany hurricane lamps.

I found this picture at The Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture and it was actually made somewhere between 1894 – 1896 by the Tiffany Studios.

Their gallery label describes it in this way:

The earliest lamp in the collection, this example may pre-date Louis Comfort Tiffany’s 1894 Favrile Glass patent. Irregularities in coloration and surface texture suggest that the shade was created while Tiffany was still experimenting with the decoration of blown glass. Though it is now electrified, the shade was made for use with candles.

Now, is that not one of the coolest hurricane lamps you’ve ever seen?

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