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Candlestick

Place of OriginProbably the United States

DateProbably 1920-1930; possibly 1865-1880

DimensionsH: 9 1/16 in. (22.95 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm); Base Diam: 4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm)

MediumDeep amethyst lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.112

Not on View

DescriptionPressed in the same type of mold and in the same manner as 1968.35A and 1964.98.

Published ReferencesPressed Pattern Glass, trade catalogue, New England Glass Company, East Cambridge, Mass., 1869, pl. 25, no. 1341.

Watkins, Lura Woodside, Cambridge Glass, 1818-1888: The Story of the New England Glass Company, Boston, Marshall Jones, 1930; reprint, New York, Bramball House, 1953, pl. 45, bottom right, p. 104.

Lee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, pl. 186, second from right.

Revi, Albert C., American Pressed Glass and Figure Bottles, New York and Toronto, Nelson, 1964, p. 153, bottom right.

Watkins, Lura Woodside, "Pressed Glass of the New England Glass Company: An Early Catalogue at the Corning Museum," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 22, 1970, pp. 149-164, p. 163, no. 1341.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 338, fig. 292, bottom, third from right, no. 1341.

Wilson, 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. 815, no. 1392.