Candlestick

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Candlestick

Place of OriginMidwest

Date1830-1845

DimensionsH: 8 1/4 in. (21.0 cm); Base W: 3 19/32 in. (9.1 cm); Rim Diam: 2 13/32 in. (6.1 cm)

MediumColorless glass with a yellowish cast; blown, tooled, mold-pressed.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.29

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DescriptionSocket blown and finished by tooling, with a tooled knop below and an applied tooled collar around the base of the socket. Joined by a bladed knop to the standard and base. Standard and base pressed upside down in a one-piece female mold that formed the seven flutes on the standard and the stepped base by a plain male plunger consisting of a tapered cylindrical lower part and a three-stepped circular section with square upper part that formed the hollow standard, base, and underside of base. Rough pontil mark on edges of two middle steps.

Published ReferencesWilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1994, v. 1, p. 330, no. 405.Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Early American Pressed Glass, exhibition, January 28-March 6, 1966 (no catalog).