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Candlestick

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

Date1855-1870

DimensionsH: 6 7/8 in. (17.45 cm); Base W: 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm); Rim Diam: 2 5/32 in. (5.5 cm)

MediumGreenish-yellow (so-called Vaseline) lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.112

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DescriptionSocket and stem pressed upright in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger of cylindrical form, tapered near the bottom to a small, flat circular end. Joined by a wafer to a base in the form of a dolphin on a scalloped hexagonal foot. Base pressed, probably upside down, in a female mold of two sections by a male plunger that formed the shallow, hollow hexagonal underside of the base, with two pairs of concentric rings surrounding a plain center below the dolphin's head. No hollow in head.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 459, pl. 184, center.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 384, pl. 196, no. 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, possibly p. 64, no. 4052.

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. 440, no. 681.