Pair of Candlesticks

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Pair of Candlesticks

ManufacturerPossibly American Flint Glass Works (American, 1764 -1774)

ManufacturerPossibly Mount Washington Glass Works (American, about 1837-1870)

Date1840-1855

DimensionsH: 8 27/32 in. (22.5 cm); Base W: 3 11/16 in. (9.3 cm); Rim Diam: 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm)

MediumWhite alabaster glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.37A-B

Not on View

DescriptionSocket and stem pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections by a plain male plunger of cylindrical form with a rounded lower end, with a cap ring that formed the upper part of the petals and the ring within them that curves inward to the socket. Joined by a wafer to an eight-flute columnar standard on a circular concave-convex base on a square plinth with chamfered corners. Standard and plinth pressed, apparently in a one-piece female mold, by a plain male plunger that formed the hollow interior of the column and circular-and-square interior of the base. Rough pontil mark around base of hollow standard.

Published ReferencesWilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 296, fig. 250, third from right.

Spillman, Jane Shadel, Glass Bottles, Lamps, and Other Objects, New York, Knopf, 1983, p. 277, left.

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. 430, no. 653.

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