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Candlestick

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1840-1855

DimensionsH: 9 7/32 in. (23.4 cm); Base W: 3 19/32 in. (9.15 cm); Rim Diam: 2 13/32 in. (6.1 cm)

MediumGreenish-yellow (so-called Vaseline) lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.107A

Not on View

DescriptionSocket and stem pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections by a plain male plunger of cylindrical form with a tapered lower end, with a cap ring that formed the upper part of the six petals. Joined by a wafer to an eleven-flute columnar standard with a concave-convex circular base on a double-plinth. Standard and base pressed upside down in a female mold of four vertical sections, in conjunction with a one-piece female mold that formed the double plinth base, by a plain male plunger that formed the hollow column and the hollow double-square-and-round interior of the base. Rough pontil mark on interior at base of standard.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 460, pls. 185 and 186, center.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 296, fig. 250, left.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 228, no. 890.

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, NH, authors, vol. 4, 1983, p. 40, no. 4039.

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. 429, no. 652.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Early American Pressed Glass, January 28-March 6, 1966 (no catalog).