Candlestick

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Object Name: 
Candlestick
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
55.4.190
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 22.4 cm; Base Diam: 10.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1825-1850
Primary Description: 
Candlestick. Clear glass coated at the insides with silver ("mercury glass"); mold blown and silvered; double-ogee foot with flat base, slightly concave stem with flattened knops at bottom and top and flanked by two spool-like parts, socket with uneven thickened rim; heavy gadrooning on foot, stem and lower part of socket.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
colorless
silver
Technique: 
mold-blowing
silvering
Material: 
glass
silver

Publications (3)

Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 90, #1, pp. 300-301; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 90, #1, pp. 300-301; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 90, #1, pp. 300-301; BIB# 96725