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Candlestick

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

Date1835-1840

DimensionsH: 8 15/16 in. (22.7 cm); Base W: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm); Rim Diam: 2 7/32 in. (5.6 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1982.157

Not on View

DescriptionLacy socket with trifid leaf motif pressed, probably upright, in a female mold of three vertical sections by a plain male plunger, with a cap ring that formed the scalloped edge and top of the bobeche. Joined directly to a standard composed of two multiribbed, tooled knops and one hollow, pattern-molded melon knop. Joined by a thick wafer to a trifid pedestal base consisting of three C scrolls on a curved triangular foot with three paw feet. Base pressed upside down in a female mold of three vertical sections by a plain male plunger.

Published ReferencesWilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 277, fig. 240, center.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 204, nos. 798.

The following illustrate bases of the same pattern, possibly pressed in the same mold:

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 192, no. 2 (candlestick).

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 277, fig. 240, center and right (two candlesticks).

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, pp. 204-205, nos. 797, 798 (same two candlesticks as Wilson).

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 2, nos. 815, 816 (two lamps of the same form with the same base, probably pressed in the same mold).

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. 344, no. 434.