Candlestick

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Candlestick

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1850-1865

DimensionsH: 27.0 cm (10 5/8 in.); Base W: 13.2 cm (5 3/16 in.); Rim W: 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.)

MediumJade-green lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.27

Not on View

DescriptionSocket and upper part of standard pressed upright in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger that formed the socket and its top surface. Joined by a wafer to a hexagonal standard and foot. Standard and base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections bearing the pattern by a male plunger that formed the hollow interior of the base and standard and underside of the base. Shear mark on interior of base. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, M.A., author, 1947, p. 460, pl. 185, right

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 390, pl. 200, no. 30

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. 440, no. 683.

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