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Candlestick

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

Date1845-1855

DimensionsH: 22.1 cm (8 11/16 in.); Base W: 7.7 cm (3 1/32 in.); Rim Diam: 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.)

MediumAlabaster glass, light translucent blue socket and stem and white base.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.27

Not on View

DescriptionHexagonal socket and stem pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections, bearing a pattern of dolphins and shells on each of the six sides by a plain male cylindrical plunger with almost flat lower edge. Joined by a wafer of white alabaster glass to a base in the form of a dolphin on a slightly stepped square plinth. Base pressed in a female mold of two vertical sections, opening diagonally across the plinth and through the center of the front and rear of the dolphin, by a plain male plunger that formed a cylindrical hollow inside the body up to the juncture of the tail, a round-ended rectangular hollow in the head, a stepped square hollow in the plinth, and the flat underside edge of the base.

Published ReferencesKeefe, John W., "American Lacy and Pressed Glass in the Toledo Museum of Art," Antiques, vol. 100, July 1971, pp. 104-109 (Reprint 2, pp. 151-156), p. 108, repr. fig. 6.

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. 68, no. 4060.

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. 438, no. 676, colorpl. 676, p. 257.

Exhibition HistoryRose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1954, p. 100, no. 326.