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Candlestick

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

Date1830-1845

DimensionsH: 6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm); Base W: 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.0 cm)

MediumPurplish-blue glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1990.92

Not on View

DescriptionSocket pressed in the same mold and in the same manner as 1967.87. Joined by a wafer to a hollow tapered cylindrical standard on a cruciform base. Standard and base pressed upside down in a one-piece female mold by a male plunger bearing the pattern of fine ribs that formed the interior of the standard, the series of indentations on the underside of each of the four lobes, and the underside of the perimeter of the base.

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

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. 207, no. 805 (base may have been pressed in the same mold).

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. 40, no. 4006.

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. 326, no. 395.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Early American Pressed Glass, exhibition, January 28-March 6, 1966 (no catalog).