candlestick

Object NameCandlestick

Made FromLead Glass

Dateabout 1760-1770

Place MadeEngland

TechniquePattern-molded, blown

SizeOverall H: 22.75 cm; Foot Diam: 12 cm

Accession Number50.2.17

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

In Sparkling Company: Glass and the Costs of Social Life in Britain during the 1700s

The Story of English Glass

Story of English Glass (Traveling Exhibition)

Title Unknown (Rich's)

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless lead glass; pattern-molded and blown. Cylindrical socket with molded wide-spread vertical ribs and in-folded rim, composite shaft including long cylindrical with pair air-twist cable spirals and between collared ball-knops with circle of tears or air-beads, circular high domed foot with molded heavy radial ribs each swirling to plain rim from diamond-boss at shoulder of dome, rough pontil mark.
Provenance

Source Steuben Glass, Inc. (American, founded 1903) - 1950-10-01