Pair of Candlesticks

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Pair of Candlesticks

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

1967.69A-B

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.