Candlestick

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Object Name: 
Candlestick
Place Made: 
possibly United States, NH, Stoddard
Accession Number: 
55.4.170
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 12.7 cm; Rim Diam: 4 cm; Foot Diam: 9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1842-1860
Primary Description: 
Candlestick. Transparent brown-amber glass with small bubbles; free blown of one gather and tooled; large sloping hollow foot with concave base and rough pontil mark, double-knop shaft with cylindrical socket and flanged lip.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
brown
amber
Technique: 
glassblowing
tooling
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

The Decorative Arts of New Hampshire, 1700-1825
Venue(s)
Currier Gallery of Art 1984-07-01 through 1984-09-06

Publications (3)

Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 89, #3, pp. 298-299; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 89, #3, pp. 298-299; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 89, #3, pp. 298-299; BIB# 96725