Candlestick
Candlestick
Place of OriginUnited States, probably New England
Date1840-1855
DimensionsH: 7 13/32 in. (18.8 cm); Base Diam: 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/32 in. (5.3 cm)
MediumGreenish-yellow (so-called Vaseline) glass.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number
1967.76
Not on View
DescriptionSocket and base pressed in the same manner in molds similar to those used for 1967.69A and 1967.70.
Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 459, pl. 182, center.
McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 391, pl. 201, no. 45.
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. 48, no. 4022, right.
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. 435, no. 667.
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