Candlestick

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Candlestick

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1845-1855

DimensionsH: 7 13/32 in. (18.8 cm); Base W: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); Rim W: 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm)

MediumDeep amethyst lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.194

Not on View

DescriptionSocket and stem pressed in the same manner and in the same mold as that used for 1967.76 and 1967.81. Joined by a wafer to an octagonal standard on a square base. Standard and base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections by a male plunger that formed an eight-lobed hollow in the lower part of the standard and a square hollow space below. Edge of underside of base ground and polished. Rough pontil mark around edge of lobed hollow.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 460, pl. 186, right.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 389, pl. 197, no. 8.

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. 254.

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. 225, no. 879.

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. 436, no. 670.