Candlestick

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Object Name: 
Candlestick
Place Made: 
United States, PA, Pittsburgh
Accession Number: 
55.4.186 B
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 23.4 cm; Rim Diam: 4.5 cm; Foot Diam: 10.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1870-1880
Primary Description: 
Candlestick. Clear, transparent ruby-red and deep green glass; wear marks; free blown and tooled; green sloping foot (shape of reversed shallow bowl) with rough pontil mark and collar at top holding the slender hourglass-shaped shaft of clear glass, two graduated clear mereses, cylindrical socket with flanged rim of ruby glass.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
colorless
ruby
deep green
Technique: 
glassblowing
tooling
Material: 
glass

Publications (3)

Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 90, #2, pp. 300-301; BIB# 96725
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 90, #2, pp. 300-301; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 90, #2, pp. 300-301; BIB# 76944

Objects in Set (2)

2 Candlesticks
Date:1870-1880
Accession Number:55.4.186
Candlestick
Date:1870-1880
Accession Number:55.4.186 A