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Candlestick

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

Date1840-1855

DimensionsH: 6 19/32 in. (16.75 cm); Base Diam: 4 13/32 in. (11.2 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.0 cm)

MediumDeep purplish-blue lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.101

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DescriptionSocket and hexagonal stem pressed in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain cylindrical plunger tapered and rounded at its lower end. Joined by a wafer to a hexagonal stem above a seven-loop base. Standard and base pressed upside down in a one-piece female mold bearing the pattern, in conjunction with a two-piece mold that formed the hexagonal knop, by a plain curved, tapered male plunger that formed the hollow interior of the base, with a short vertical shoulder joining it to a rounded foot.

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, 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. 431, no. 657.