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Candlestick

Place of OriginPossibly New England

Date1840-1850

DimensionsH: 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm); Base Diam: 3 7/32 in. (8.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.15 cm)

MediumAlabaster glass, jade-green socket, and white standard and base.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.28

Not on View

DescriptionSocket, with pattern of double-ended fleur-de-lis and scrolls alternating with double-ended stylized tulips between short hexagonal stem and hexagonal lip, pressed in a female mold of three vertical sections by a plain, short (2.1 cm [13/16 in.]) cylindrical male plunger with slightly rounded ends. Joined by a wafer of white alabaster glass to a hexagonal standard, patterned with acanthus leaves at top and bottom, on a hexagonal base also patterned with acanthus leaves. Standard and base pressed in a female mold of three vertical sections by a plain hexagonal male plunger that formed the bottom of the base and the hexagonal hollow extending upward into the baluster of the standard. Rough pontil mark on interior of base.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 460, pl. 187, 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. 423, no. 639, colorpl. 639, p. 255.