Pair of Candlesticks

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Pair of Candlesticks

Place of OriginUnited States, Midwest region

Date1830-1845

DimensionsH: 8 1/4 in. (21.0 cm); Base W: 3 21/32 in. (9.3 cm); Rim Diam: 2 29/32 in. (7.4 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.30A-B

Not on View

DescriptionSocket blown and finished by tooling, along with its rounded base and the tooled knop below. Joined by one bladed and one cushion knop to the base. Base pressed in the same mold and the same manner as 1966.29. Rough pontil mark on interior around edge of uppermost step.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 380-381, pl. 192, no. 4.

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, Windham, N.H., authors, vol. 4, 1983, repr. p. 43, no. 4012.

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1994; v. 1, p. 330, no. 406.

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