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Candlestick

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

ManufacturerProbably New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Date1845-1855

DimensionsH: 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm); Base W: 3 1/32 in. (7.65 cm); Rim Diam: 2 7/32 in. (5.65 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.78A

Not on View

DescriptionHexagonal socket and stem pressed upright in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger. Joined by a wafer to an octagonal standard on a square plinth. Standard and plinth pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections in the same manner as that used for 1967.106. Same rough pontil mark as that on 1967.106. Base not ground. Socket highly fire-polished.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 460, pl. 186, right.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 389, pl. 197, no. 8 (same form but without ribs in base), no. 10 (same base).

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. 443, no. 690.