Candlestick

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Object Name: 
Candlestick
Place Made: 
Ireland
Accession Number: 
50.2.85 B
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21.25 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1800-1829
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown and cut, pressed "lemon- squeezer" base. Deep cylindrical socket with flared upturned round-scallop rim, wide flat octagonal merese at top of urn-shaped shaft, small octagonal merese at top of pressed base having short plain stem, low dome, fluted inside, on square base; cut decoration: band of diamond diapering between broad flat panels on shaft, flat panels on socket, horizontal rib around socket at center and neck of shaft.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1950-10-01
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Cut, Pressed
cut glass

Exhibitions (1)

Title Unknown (Marshall Field & Co.)
Venue(s)
Marshall Field & Co., Chicago 1946-12 through 1946-12

Publications (5)

Irish Glass: Waterford-Cork-Belfast in the Age of Exuberance (1981) illustrated, p. 112, pl. 71; BIB# 21932
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) p. 24, #11; BIB# 30457
Waterford Glass House (1977-06) illustrated, p. 32; BIB# AI100930
Irish Glass: The Age of Exuberance (1970) illustrated, pl. 35A; BIB# 27243
Title Unknown (Country Life) (1957-01-31) illustrated, p. 189, #6;

Objects in Set (2)

2 Candlesticks
Date:about 1800-1829
Accession Number:50.2.85
Candlestick
Date:about 1800-1829
Accession Number:50.2.85 A