Candlestick

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Candlestick

Place of OriginProbably the United States; possibly Europe

DateProbably 1920-1925

DimensionsH: 7 11/16 in. (19.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 31/32 in. (5.0 cm); Base Diam: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)

MediumOpal lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.86

Not on View

DescriptionPressed in a different mold but in the same manner as 1964.113A and 1964.107A.

Published ReferencesPressed Pattern Glass, trade catalogue, New England Glass Company, East Cambridge, Mass., 1869, pl. 15, no. 1340.

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, p. 96, pl. 45, bottom center.

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, fig. 15 (repr. of page from New England Glass Company 1869 trade catalogue), no. 1340 (candlesticks identical to this piece except that they have two small steps on the hexagonal plinth instead of one as here).

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 338, fig. 292, no. 1340.

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. 816, no. 1394.