Candlestick

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Candlestick

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1850-1870

DimensionsH: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm); Base W: 3 9/16 in. (9.0 cm); Rim W: 1 15/16 in. (5.0 cm)

MediumWhite alabaster glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.164

Not on View

DescriptionEntire piece pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections by a male plunger that formed the hollow interior of the standard and the foot, in conjunction with a male plug that formed the hole for the candle, with a cap ring that formed the underside of the foot. Shear mark on interior of base. Slightly rough pontil mark on interior of base at junction of foot and standard. Socket and upper part of standard heavily fire-polished.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 459, pl. 183, left.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 226, no. 886.

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. 441, no. 684.