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Candlestick

Manufacturer H. P. Sinclaire and Company (American, 1904-1929)

Date1926-1927

DimensionsH: 30.5 cm (12 in.); Rim Diam: 10.3 cm (4 1/16 in.); Base Diam: 12.9 cm (5 1/16 in.)

MediumColorless glass; top part of standard overlaid with transparent green glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Douglas Sinclaire

Object number

1984.178

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DescriptionSocket with broad bobeche blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a short section to a blown and tooled hollow inverted baluster standard with a knop at the bottom. Applied blown and tooled domed foot. Polished pontil mark in center of dome. Socket and lower part of standard cut with eight panels. Green top part of standard engraved with grape-and-vine motif. Upper surface of bobeche and underside of foot engraved with a wreath formed of ovals joined by links of smaller ovals.

Published ReferencesEstelle Sinclaire Farrar, H. P. Sinclaire, Jr., Glassmaker, vol. 2, Garden City, N.Y., author, 1975, p. 28, no. A, top, left and right; p. 92, no. 2946.

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. 735, no. 1251.