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Candlestick

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1845-1855

DimensionsH: 5 9/16 in. (14.15 cm); Base Diam: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)

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

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.35

Not on View

DescriptionSocket and stem pressed in the same manner as 1966.33 but in a different mold. Joined by a wafer to a hexagonal standard and a circular foot. Standard and base pressed upside down in a plain female mold of two vertical sections by a male plunger bearing a pattern of ribs and diamond, with a cap ring that formed the underside of the foot. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesKnittle, Rhea Mansfield, Early American Glass, New York, Century, 1927, pl. 54, second from left, bottom row.

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, NH, authors, vol. 4, 1983, p. 46, no. 4018.

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. 427, no. 648.

Exhibition HistoryRose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Art, Corning, N.Y., 1954, p. 101, no. 334.

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