Candlestick

Place of OriginUnited States, New England

Date1830-1845

DimensionsH: 24.6 cm (9 11/16 in.); Base W: 9.9 cm (3 29/32 in.); Rim Diam: 6.0 cm (2 11/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1982.155

Not on View

DescriptionSocket and base pressed in the same molds and in the same manner as ACGC, p. 327, no. 398. Joined by two wafers to a double knop with 15 broad ribs blown in a full-size mold of three vertical sections like that of ACGC, p. 324-325, nos. 391 and 392, but with no diamonds between the top and bottom knops. Joined by a multiribbed knop to the base.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, pl. 181, center

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. 328, no. 399.