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candlestick

Object Name2 Candlesticks
Made FromLead Glass
Dateabout 1800-1829
Place MadeIreland
Techniqueblown, cut, pressed
SizeSee Individual Records
Accession Number50.2.85
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionColorless lead glass; blown and cut, pressed "lemon- squeezer" bases. Deep cylindrical sockets with flared upturned round-scallop rims, wide flat octagonal merese at top of urn-shaped shafts, small octagonal merese at top of pressed bases having short plain stems, low domes, fluted inside, on square bases; cut decoration: band of diamond diapering between broad flat panels on shafts, flat panels on sockets, horizontal rib around sockets at center and neck of shafts.
Provenance
Source Steuben Glass, Inc. (American, founded 1903) - 1950-10-01
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