Candlestick

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Candlestick

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1850-1860

DimensionsH: 7 3/32 in. (18.0 cm); Base Diam: 3 15/16 in. (10.0 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.0 cm)

MediumLead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.122

Not on View

DescriptionDeep blue. Socket and stem pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections, with a cap ring that formed the upper side of socket petals, by a plain male plunger. Joined by a wafer to a hexagonal standard with a round foot. Standard and base pressed, probably upside down, in a female mold of two vertical sections that formed the hexagonal part, in conjunction with a one-piece female mold that formed the round base, by a plain male plunger that formed the hollow interior of the base, with a cap ring that formed the slightly rounded underside of the foot. The female mold that formed the standard did not open in a straight vertical joint: the moldmark rises vertically from the top round ridge to the bottom of the hexagonal knop, then angles to the right, then vertically to the lower point on the scallop at the top of the waisted standard, then left along the top of the scallop for 0.6 cm (1/4 in.), and then vertically to the top.

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, left.

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. 47, no. 4020.

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. 437, no. 675.