Candlestick

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Candlestick

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1840-1855

DimensionsH: 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm); Base W: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm); Rim Diam: 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm)

MediumTransparent light blue non-lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.129

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DescriptionSocket and upper part of stem pressed in a female mold of three vertical sections by a plain male plunger with a tapered lower end, with a cap ring that formed the upper part of the six petals. Joined by a wafer and cushion knop to a hollow hexagonal base surmounted by a solid hexagon that was softened and distorted by reheating. Base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain, tapered, cylindrical male plunger that formed the hollow interior and also the bottom of the hexagonal foot. Slight pontil mark around circular edge of foot.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 459, pl. 182, second from left.

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. 655.