Candlestick

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Object Name: 
Candlestick
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, probably NY, Redford
Accession Number: 
55.4.168 A
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 23 cm; Foot Diam: 9.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1831-1850
Primary Description: 
Candlestick. Transparent pale aquamarine glass; free blown and tooled; thick flat foot with rough pontil mark, shaft consisting of hollow inverted baluster between graduated rings, high socket with straight-sided bobeche.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
aquamarine
Technique: 
glassblowing
tooling
Material: 
glass

Publications (6)

Glass Bottles, Lamps & Other Objects (1983) pl. 270, second from left; BIB# 22375
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) illustrated, pp. 84-85, pl. 7 #1; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pp. 84-85, pl. #1; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pp. 84-85, pl. #1; BIB# 96725
A Glimpse of Early Glass (1930) illustrated, p. 140; BIB# AI96592
Loan exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture & glass (1929) illustrated, #289; BIB# 28050

Objects in Set (2)

2 Candlesticks
Artist:Redford Glass Works
Date:about 1831-1850
Accession Number:55.4.168
Candlestick
Artist:
Date:about 1831-1850
Accession Number:55.4.168 B