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Candlestick

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

Date1845-1865

DimensionsH: 10 11/32 in. (26.3 cm); Base W: 3 21/32 in. (9.3 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)

MediumTranslucent white alabaster glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.38

Not on View

DescriptionPetal socket and hexagonal stem pressed in a female mold of three vertical sections by a plain cylindrical male plunger tapered at the lower end, with a cap ring that formed the top six petals. Joined by a wafer to a base in the form of a dolphin on a slightly stepped square plinth. Base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections bearing the patterns by a plain male plunger that formed the interior of the hollow square base and hollow dolphin head.

Published ReferencesKnittle, Rhea Mansfield, Early American Glass, New York, Century, 1927, pl. 54, top right.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 382, 385, 393, pl. 204, no. 66.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 294, fig. 248, left.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 224, no. 876.

Spillman, Jane Shadel, Glass Bottles, Lamps, and Other Objects, New York, Knopf, 1983, no. 280, left.

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. 65, no. 4054.

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. 433, no. 663.

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