2 Candlesticks

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Object Name: 
2 Candlesticks
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NJ, Southern
Accession Number: 
50.4.1
Dimensions: 
See Individual Records
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1740-1777
Primary Description: 
Green or bottle glass; light green, free-blown; long cylindrical socket with narrow flange and shaft with three hollow ball knops above long cylinder (hollow extending into cylinder) formed from one piece, applied domed foot with plain rim; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1950-07-31
Color: 
light green
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

A Touch of Glass
Venue(s)
Explorers Hall, National Geographic Society 1995-02-15 through 1995-09-15

Publications (9)

Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1974) (1974) illustrated, p. 86, #108; BIB# 28793
Le Verre dans Tous ses Reflets (1973-06) illustrated, pp. 36-41, ill. p. 40, center;
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1965) (1965) illustrated, p. 82, #102; BIB# 27582
The Woman's Day Dictionary of American Glass (1961-08) illustrated, p. 20, top center; BIB# 98018
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1958) (1958) illustrated, p. 80, #92; BIB# 27746
Glas (1958) illustrated, p. 137, fig. 131; BIB# 25567
Corning Glassmaker: an anthology edition (1956) illustrated, p. 8 (top left); BIB# 67761
Corning Glassmaker: The Story of American Glass (1953) illustrated, p. 8 (top left); BIB# 48774
The Alfred B. Maclay Collection of Early American Glass and Ceramics (#100) (1939-03-25) illustrated, p. 119; BIB# 11369

Objects in Set (2)

Candlestick
Artist:Wistarburgh Glassworks
Date:about 1740-1777
Accession Number:50.4.1 A
Candlestick
Artist:Wistarburgh Glassworks
Date:about 1740-1770
Accession Number:50.4.1 B