Candlestick

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Object Name: 
Candlestick
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, CT, Meriden
Accession Number: 
95.4.359
Dimensions: 
H: 20.3 cm, W: 10.8 cm, D: 10.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1900-1915
Credit Line: 
Gift of Jill Thomas-Clark
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass, silver plate; glass pressed, cut; silver formed by casting, stamping. Urn-shaped silver-plated candle socket above a columnar glass stem formed by pressing as a solid cylinder and then decorated with vertical rows of prisms around sides, fastened to a square silver-plated platform base with four feet underneath, marked "EUREKA SILVER COM/QUADRUPLE/PLATE" in a circle above "295".

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Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Thomas-Clark, J., Source
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
pressed, cut; silver cast, stamped
pressing
cut glass