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Candlestick

Candlestick

 
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Object Name: 
Excelsior Candlestick
Title: 
Candlestick
Pattern Name: 
Excelsior
Department
American
Maker(s)
M'Kee Brothers, Maker - probably
Place Made: 
United States, probably PA, Pittsburgh
Date: 
probably 1866-1899
Color
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colorless
Technique
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pressing
Material
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lead glass
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metal
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21 cm
Accession Number: 
50.4.424
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Excelsior Candlestick. Lead glass, colorless; pressed in one piece; tapering six-sided column in four graduated ties of depressed elongated loops with relief blunt-point square-diamond in spaces between ends of loops, extremities of loops in bottom and top tiers forming scallop edge of rim of candlesocket and of base, hollow through two bottom tiers; socket fitted with metal candleholder.
Provenance
McKearin, George S., Source
1950-07-31

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Publications

Glass Bottles, Lamps & Other Objects (1983) illustrated, pl. 275; BIB# 22375
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 244, #956; BIB# 30457

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