Candlestick

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Candlestick

Place of OriginProbably United States

DateProbably 1920-1930; possibly 1850-1860

DimensionsH: 7 7/16 in. (18.9 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); Base Diam: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)

MediumDeep yellow-green lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.74B

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

DescriptionHexagonal socket and stem ending in a circular cushion: pressed upright in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain cylindrical male plunger with a slightly rounded end. Joined by a thin wafer to a hexagonal base. Base: pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger of tapered cylindrical shape that formed the hollow interior and underside of the hexagonal base and the short angular shape on the under edge of each hexagonal section of the base.

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, p. 51, no. 4028.

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. 816, no. 1396.