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Candlestick

ManufacturerProbably New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Date1865-1880

DimensionsH: 19.35 cm (7 5/8 in.); Base Diam: 10.2 cm (4 1/32 in.); Rim W: 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.)

MediumColorless glass with a grayish cast.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1959.26

Not on View

DescriptionHexagonal socket and baluster below it, terminating in a short hexagon, pressed upright in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain cylindrical plunger with a rounded lower end, with a cap ring that formed the rounded top of the socket. Joined directly to the hexagonal standard, with the moldmarks of the socket directly aligned with those of the standard. Standard and base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections by a tapered cylindrical plain male plunger with rounded step shoulders that formed the underside of the hollow base and the underside of its edge. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesWilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 441, no. 685.Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1963, p. 75, no. 207.