Pair of Candlesticks

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Pair of Candlesticks

Place of OriginProbably United States

Date1920-1930

DimensionsH: 19.3 cm (7 19/32 in.); Rim Diam: 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.); Base Diam: 10.2 cm (4 1/32 in.)

MediumLead glass; mold-pressed; gilded.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.35A-B

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upright, in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger, in conjunction with a short male cylindrical plunger that formed the hole in the candle socket and a second long, tapered male cylindrical plunger with hexagonal shoulder that formed the deep hollow in the standard, the hexagonal interior of the base, the underside of the edge of the base, and the slight taper from the base to the bottom of the exterior of the base. Possibly produced in an automatic machine press. Gilded.

Published ReferencesPressed Pattern Glass, trade catalogue, New England Glass Company, East Cambidge, MA, 1869, pl. 25, no. 1343.

Watkins, Lura Woodside, "Pressed Glass of the New England Glass Company: An Early Catalogue at the Corning Museum," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 22, 1970, pp. 149-164, p. 163, no. 1343.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 338, bottom right, no. 1343.

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. 814, no. 1390.