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Title: 
Unknown
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, possibly CT, New London
Accession Number: 
55.4.167
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 24.3 cm; Foot Diam: 10.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1862-1870
Primary Description: 
Candlestick. Transparent pale aquamarine glass with minute and large bubbles; free blown and tooled; quatrefoil foot with rough pontil mark and sloping top, shaft consisting of hollow baluster between triple rings at top and bottom, the latter resting on another heavy double ring, slender socket with flanged lip, at base of socket gadrooned gather of glass; the baluster contains a U.S. Indian cent dated 1862.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
aquamarine
Technique: 
glassblowing
tooling
Material: 
glass

Publications (5)

Un guide pour la datation de la verrerie de table des annees 1800 a 1940 (2001) illustrated, Fig, 8, p. 182, left; BIB# 96483
Studies in Material Culture Research (2000) illustrated, p.154, fig. 8; BIB# 71763
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 7, #2, p. 84; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 7, #2, p. 84; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 7, #2, p. 84; BIB# 96725