Pair of Candlesticks

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Pair of Candlesticks

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1835-1845

DimensionsH: 8 in. (20.3 cm); Base W: 4 9/16 in. (11.6 cm); Rim Diam: 2 11/16 in. (6.9 cm)

MediumColorless glass with a yellowish tinge.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.100A-B

Not on View

DescriptionSocket blown and finished by tooling. Joined by three heavy wafers to a standard and base. Standard and base pressed upside down in a one-piece female mold by a plain male plunger of tapered quatrefoil cross section that formed the hollow standard and underside of the base. Rough pontil mark at corners of quatrefoil where interior of base and standard meet.

Published ReferencesBarlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, NH, authors, vol. 4, 1983, repr. p. 43, no. 4011.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, no. 448 (pair).

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. 334, no. 416.