Candlestick

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Candlestick

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1845-1855

DimensionsH 19.0 cm (7 15/32 in.); W base 11.7 cm (4 19/32 in.); W rim 5.3 cm (2 3/32 in.)

MediumGreenish-yellow (so-called Vaseline) lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.114

Not on View

DescriptionSocket and stem pressed in the same manner and in the same mold as 1967.76 but by a longer, pointed plunger. Joined by a wafer to a large hexagonal base. Base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger that formed the hollow, circular interior of the base, with a cap ring that formed the outer perimeter of the base, including the short angular sections sloping upward to join each segment of the exterior of the hexagonal base. Slight pontil scars around edge of underside of base.

Published ReferencesBarlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, N.H., authors, vol. 4, 1983, p. 48, nos. 4021, 4022, left.

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. 435, no. 669.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Early American Pressed Glass, exhibition, January 28-March 6, 1966 (no catalog).