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Candlestick

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1845-1860

DimensionsH: 5 1/8 in. (13.0 cm); Base Diam: 3 21/32 in. (9.25 cm); Rim Diam: 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm)

MediumGreenish-yellow (so-called Vaseline) lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.28

Not on View

DescriptionSocket and stem pressed in the same manner and probably in the same mold as 1966.33. Joined by a wafer to a hexagonal standard and a circular foot. Standard and base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections, with a base plate that formed the upper portion of the ring to which the wafer is attached, by a plain male plunger of tapered cylindrical form with a shoulder that formed the hollow interior of the standard and foot, with a cap ring that formed the rounded underside of the foot. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesWilson, 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. 427, no. 647.Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Early American Pressed Glass, January 28-March 6, 1966 (no catalog).