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Candlestick

ManufacturerPossibly Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Date1835-1845

DimensionsH: 4 23/32 in. (12.0 cm); Base W: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm); Rim Diam: 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm)

MediumGreenish-yellow (so-called Vaseline) glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.34

Not on View

DescriptionHexagonal socket and stem pressed upright in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger that formed the socket and the upper surface of the socket. Joined by a wafer to a short hexagonal standard and base. Standard and base pressed upside down in a one-piece female mold by a plain male plunger. Slight pontil mark around underside of base. Fire-polished.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 460, pl. 187, left (short candlestick with this socket but with a variant of this base).

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. 426, no. 644.

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