Candelabrum

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Object Name: 
Candelabrum
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England, Birmingham
Accession Number: 
96.2.10
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 295 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1883
Web Description: 
The dazzling displays of glass furnishings at World’s Fairs appealed to many customers from India. This new audience motivated European manufacturers to produce large glass furnishings – including chandeliers, candelabras, fountains and furniture – specifically designed for the palaces of India. Between about 1860 and 1920 furniture of this type was produced by English firms such as F. & C. Osler for export to India.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Mallett & Son (Antiques) Ltd., Source
1996-07-01
Category: 
19th Century European
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
cutting
Material: 
glass
marble
brass

Description

Primary Description: 
Colorless glass, cut, with 18 candle arms, tulip shades, and white marble plinth.

Exhibitions (1)

Glass of the Maharajahs: European Cut Glass Furnishings for Indian Royalty
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2006-05-19 through 2006-11-30
Changing Exhibitions Gallery

Publications (11)

Exhibition: Glass of the Maharajahs at Corning (2006-06) illustrated, p. 16;
Suited For Royalty (2006-05-18) illustrated, p. 2, weekend;
European Glass Furnishings for Eastern Palaces (2006) illustrated, p. 93, fig. 3-47; BIB# 92506
Between Sips: Beautiful vistas, Priceless Treasures (2005-09-18) illustrated, section e, esp. p. 7;
Corning Museum Scholar to Lecture (2003) p. 2;
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 36, #43; BIB# 65446
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999) illustrated, p. 20; BIB# 63967
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: 32 Ready-to-Mail Full-Color Postcards (1998) #14; BIB# 61155
Recent Important Acquisitions, 39 (1997) illustrated, pp. 174-175, #33; BIB# AI5243
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1996 (1997) p. 3; BIB# AI95179
Mallett candelabra assembly plus mirrors / Mallet and Son Antiques (1996) illustrated BIB# 112359