Pair of Candlesticks

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Pair of Candlesticks

Place of OriginMidwest

Date1830-1845

DimensionsH: 8 15/32 in. (21.5 cm); Base W: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm); Rim Diam: 2 15/32 in. (6.3 cm)

MediumColorless glass with a yellowish tinge; mold-pressed.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.31A-B

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DescriptionSocket pressed, probably upright, in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the geometric and petal pattern by a plain male plunger, with a cap ring that formed the scalloped edge of the bobeche. Joined by a solid tooled double-knop standard with wafers at top and bottom to a hollow octagonal base with plain interior. Base pressed in a similar mold and in the same manner as 1966.10.

Published ReferencesWilson, 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. 338, no. 426.