Candlestick

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Candlestick

Place of OriginProbably United States; possibly Europe

DateProbably 1900-1925

DimensionsH: 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm); Base Diam: 4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm)

MediumTransparent amber non-lead glass; mold pressed.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.113A

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upright, by a double-acting press in a female mold of two vertical sections by a male plunger, with a cap ring that formed the candle socket and its upper surface, in conjunction with a male plunger that formed the hollow interior of the standard and base, with a cap ring that formed the bottom edge of the base. No pontil mark. Shear mark on exterior.

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.

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, pp. 163-164, no. 1341.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 338, fig. 292, 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. 1393.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Treasures for Toledo, December 1964-January 1965.