Candlestick

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Object Name: 
Candlestick
Place Made: 
possibly United States
Accession Number: 
55.4.189
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 25.5 cm; Rim Diam: 4.3 cm; Foot Diam: 9.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1800-1825
Primary Description: 
Candlestick. Clear bubbly glass with dark tinge; wear marks; free blown and tooled; sloping plain foot with wide underfolded rim and slight pontil mark, composite shaft consisting of four multiple-ring knops divided by a cylindrical part containing a crude two-ply clear and brick-red twist, cylindrical socket with bulge at bottom and flaring rim.

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Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
colorless
brick red
Technique: 
glassblowing
tooling
Material: 
glass

Publications (3)

Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 90, #3, pp. 300-301; BIB# 96725
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 90, #3, pp. 300-301; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 90, #3, pp. 300-301; BIB# 76944