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Candlestick

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

Date1830-1840

DimensionsH: 10 5/16 in. (26.1 cm); Base W: 10 13/16 in. (9.7 cm); Rim Diam: 2 11/16 in. (6.9 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.63B

Not on View

DescriptionSocket and baluster stem blown and finished by tooling, then joined by a multiribbed knop and thick wafers. Joined by a multiribbed knop to a quatrefoil base. Base pressed by a hand press upside down in a one-piece female mold by a male plunger of squarish-domed shape with six rounded ribs on each slightly curved side and one larger rib at each corner, all tapering slightly toward the center. Rough pontil mark in center of base. Shear mark on underside of base.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947;, p. 459; pl. 180, no. 3.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 380, pl. 191, no. 5.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "Early American Pressed Glass: The Duckworth Gift of Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 8, no. 4, Winter 1965, pp. 74-94, repr. p. 88.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, no. 452 (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. 335, no. 420.