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Candlestick

ManufacturerPossibly American Flint Glass Works (American, 1764 -1774)

ManufacturerPossibly Mount Washington Glass Works (American, about 1837-1870)

Date1850-1860

DimensionsH: 8 13/16 in. (21.55 cm); Base W: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); Rim Diam: 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm)

MediumWhite alabaster glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.163

Not on View

DescriptionSocket and stem pressed in the same manner as 1966.37 and probably in the same mold, but with a deeper plunger (5.0 cm [2 in.] as compared to 3.0 cm [1-3/16 in.]). Joined by a wafer to a four-step hexagonal base with two circular knops at top. Base pressed in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger of cylindrical and hexagonal form that formed the hollow interior of the column, base, and underside of base. Rough pontil mark around bottom edge of hollow column.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 459, pl. 183, 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. 430, no. 654.