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Candlestick

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1835-1845

DimensionsH: 5 1/16 in. (12.85 cm); Base W: 2 19/32 in. (6.6 cm); Rim Diam: 1 23/32 in. (4.4 cm)

MediumLight greenish-blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.21

Not on View

DescriptionSocket and stem pressed upright in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger that formed the socket and the hexagonal shoulder. Joined by a wafer to a short hexagonal standard and base. Standard and base made in the same manner as that used for 1966.34 and with the same type of pontil mark. Lightly fire-polished.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 460, pl. 187, left (candlestick with the same base but a different socket).

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 229, no. 896.

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. 426, no. 645.

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