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Candlestick

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

Date1840-1855

DimensionsH: 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm); Base W: 4 11/32 in. (11.0 cm); Rim W: 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm)

MediumLight blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.69B

Not on View

DescriptionSocket and stem pressed in the same manner and in the same mold as that used for 1967.80. Joined by a wafer to a hexagonal base pressed in the same manner but in a different though similar mold from that used to make 1967.80 and 1967.70.

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. 4027.

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. 434, no. 665.