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Candlestick

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

Date1830-1845

DimensionsH: 9 21/32 in. (24.5 cm); Base W: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); Rim Diam: 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.88B

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DescriptionSocket pressed apparently in the same mold and in the same manner as 1966.22. Joined by two wafers to a mold-blown double-knop stem and pressed base that were made in the same molds and in the same manner as 1967.87.

Published ReferencesKnittle, Rhea Mansfield, Early American Glass, New York, Century, 1927, pl. 54, top row, second from left.

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. 44, repr. no. 4013.

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. 324, no. 391.