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Candlestick

ManufacturerPossibly Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Date1840-1850

DimensionsH 27.5 cm (10 13/16 in.); D base 13.9 cm (5 15/32 in.); D rim 6.8 cm (2 11/16 in.)

MediumAlabaster glass, blue socket and white standard and base.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.24

Not on View

DescriptionSocket and stem pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the pattern by a plain male plunger. Joined by a wafer of white alabaster glass to standard and base. Standard and base pressed upside down in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the scroll-and-acanthus-leaf pattern by a plain male plunger.

Published ReferencesKnittle, Rhea Mansfield, Early American Glass, New York, Century, 1927, pl. 59 (colorless glass).

Lee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 460, pl. 187, second from right.

Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., 1954, p. 100, no. 329.

Spillman, Jane Shadel, Glass Bottles, Lamps, and Other Objects, New York, Knopf, 1983, no. 277.

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, NH, authors, vol. 4, 1983, p. 58, no. 4041 (three sizes).

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. 424, no. 640, colorpl. 640, p. 255.

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