Candlestick

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Candlestick

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

Date1855-1870

DimensionsH: 17.45 cm (6 7/8 in.); Base W: 10.6 cm (4 3/16 in.); Rim Diam: 5.5 cm (2 5/32 in.)

MediumGreenish yellow lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.111

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DescriptionSocket and stem pressed upright in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger of cylindrical form, tapered near the bottom to a small, flat circular end. Joined by a wafer to a base in the form of a dolphin on a scalloped hexagonal foot. Base pressed, probably upside down, in a female mold of two sections by a male plunger that formed the shallow, hollow hexagonal underside of the base, with two pairs of concentric rings surrounding a plain center below the dolphin's head. No hollow in head.