Candlestick
Candlestick
Place of OriginProbably Ireland
Date1790-1810
DimensionsH: 6 11/32 in. (16.1 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm); Base W: 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm)
MediumColorless non-lead glass.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number
1964.77
Not on View
DescriptionSocket and standard blown and finished by tooling. Socket joined to a hollow sausage stem by a flanged knop. Stem joined by a bladed knop to the base. Base pressed, in a hand press, with a lemon-squeezer design on the underside. Rough pontil scar around outer edge of design.
Published ReferencesElville, E. M., Paperweights and Other Glass Curiosities, London, Country Life, 1954, 2d ed., 1957, pl. 8D, center.
Westropp, Michael Seymour Dudley, Irish Glass: An Account of Glass-Making in Ireland from the XVIth Century to the Present Day, rev. ed. Mary Boydell, Dublin, Allan Figgis, 1978, pl. 27, lower (identical form with vertically ribbed shaft).
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. 800, no. 1362.
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