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Candlestick

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

Date1840-1855

DimensionsH: 6 31/32 in. (17.7 cm); Base Diam: 4 9/32 in. (10.9 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)

MediumAlabaster glass, blue socket and stem and white base

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.186

Not on View

DescriptionSocket and stem pressed in a female mold of three vertical sections by a plain male plunger that formed the interior of the socket, with a cap ring that formed the top seven petals. Joined by a wafer of blue glass to a stem and base pressed in the same mold as that used for 1969.101.

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, second from right.

Watkins, Lura Woodside, "Positively Sandwich," Antiques, vol. 27, April 1935, p. 134, fig. 6.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 385, 391, pl. 200, no. 35.

Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1954, p. 92, no. 262.

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. 221, no. 855.

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, N.H., authors, vol. 4, 1983, p. 53, no. 4031.

Spillman, Jane Shadel, Glass Bottles, Lamps, and Other Objects, New York, Knopf, 1983, no. 274.

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. 432, no. 658, colorpl. 658, p. 256.