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Object NameBurmese Candlestick
Maker Mt. Washington Glass Company
Made FromLead Glass
Date1885-1890
Place MadeUnited States, MA, New Bedford
TechniquePattern-molded, free-blown, acid finish
SizeOverall H: 19.25 cm; Bobêche Diam: 8.6 cm; Foot Diam: 10.1 cm
Accession Number50.4.325
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Burmese Glass: 1885-1985
Mt. Washington and Pairpoint: American Glass from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties
On ViewAmerican Gallery
Interpretive Notes
Many Burmese pieces were produced in unusual or complicated shapes, with elaborate applied decoration. Despite their lack of enameled or gold decoration, they were the most expensive items on the company’s price list.
Physical DescriptionBurmese Candlestick. Lead glass, acid finish Burmese, translucent pale lemon-yellow shading to pink; mold-blown; ribbed spheroid socket with flaring flat scalloped rim, attached by yellow merese to center of saucer bobêche with upright scalloped rim, attached by double merese to diamond-diapered baluster shaft, applied ribbed domed foot with flaring underfolded rim, smooth base; socket, bobêche and shaft, shaded -- yellow into pink; merese and foot, yellow.
Provenance
Source George S. McKearin (b. 1874) - 1950-07-31