Candlestick

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Candlestick

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1845-1865

DimensionsH: 24.5 cm (9 21/32 in.); Base W: 9.25 cm (3 21/32 in.); Rim Diam: 6.1 cm (2 13/32 in.)

MediumTranslucent blue alabaster glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.26

Not on View

DescriptionPetal socket and stem pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the pattern by a plain cylindrical male plunger rounded at the end, with a cap ring that formed the upper part of the petals. Joined by a wafer to a base in the form of a dolphin on a double-stepped square plinth with one flat knop above the dolphin. Base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections bearing the pattern by a plain male plunger that formed the hollow interior of the double base and a round-ended rectangular hollow projecting about 1.0 cm (1/3 in.) into the dolphin's head.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 384-385, 393, pl. 204, no. 67

Barlow, 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. 67, nos. 4057, right, and 4058

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. 439, no. 678, colorpl. 678, p. 257.

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