Candlestick

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Object Name: 
Candlestick
Accession Number: 
50.4.204 B
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 20.5 cm; Rim Diam (Socket): 6.75 cm; Base Diam: 9.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
probably 1830-1839
Primary Description: 
Candlestick. Non-lead glass, colorless; free-blown with pressed base; deep cylindrical socket with galleried flange, applied triple-blade collar at bottom of socket and top of drawn baluster of shaft resting on triple-blade knop, applied pressed flaring conical base with smooth outside, round scalloped rim, and pattern inside: beaded bull's-eye in each scallop of rim; stippling in outer spaces formed by interlacing ovals, small flowerlike motif in middle spaces, beaded oval in inner spaces, five ribs to small conventional ornament at top of cone; traces of rough pontil mark.
Department: 
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1950-07-31
Color: 
Material: 
Collector's Guide to American Pressed Glass, 1825-1915 (1992) illustrated, p. 17, fig. 4-6; BIB# 34337
Pittsburgh Glass, 1797-1891 (1976) illustrated, p. 283 (fig. 302); BIB# 19272