Candlestick
Classification:
Date:
1840-1855
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/4 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. ( 23.5 x 8.9 x 8.9 cm )
Description:
Opaque blue and white pressed lead glass candlestick; blue hexagonal socket with petal-form rim on hexagonal stem joined with a wafer to white columnar standard with eleven flutes on two-stepped square plinth; hollow interior with pontil mark.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number:
1965.902b
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
24415
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Candlestick
Classification:
Date:
1840-1855
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/4 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. ( 23.5 x 8.9 x 8.9 cm )
Description:
Opaque blue and white pressed lead glass candlestick; blue hexagonal socket with petal-form rim on hexagonal stem joined with a wafer to white columnar standard with eleven flutes on two-stepped square plinth; hollow interior with pontil mark.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number:
1965.902a
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
24414
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Candlestick
Classification:
Date:
1840-1855
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/4 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. ( 23.5 x 8.9 x 8.9 cm )
Description:
Opaque white and blue pressed lead glass candlestick; opaque white hexagonal socket with petal-form rim on hexagonal stem joined with a wafer to opaque blue columnar standard with eleven flutes on two-stepped square plinth; hollow interior with pontil mark.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number:
1965.878a
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
24413
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Candlesticks (pair)
Classification:
Date:
1880-1920
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
each: 9 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. ( 23.5 x 14 cm )
Description:
Blown and tooled Venetian glass candlestick made of pink and green gilded glass; cylindrical pink socket is ribbed and has green, fluted rim; pink bobeche composed of eight naturalistic leaves; standard is tooled green dolphin with ribbed, S-shaped body; dolphin's tail joined to bobche with small knop, and head joined to naturalistic, eight leaf, pink base with wafer.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number:
1965.781ab
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
24412
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Candlestick
Classification:
Date:
1880-1920
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. ( 23.5 x 14 cm )
Description:
Blown and tooled Venetian glass candlestick made of pink and green gilded glass; cylindrical pink socket is ribbed and has green, fluted rim; pink bobeche composed of eight naturalistic leaves; standard is tooled green dolphin with ribbed, S-shaped body; dolphin's tail joined to bobche with small knop, and head joined to naturalistic, eight leaf, pink base with wafer.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number:
1965.781b
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
24411
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Candlestick
Classification:
Date:
1880-1920
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. ( 23.5 x 14 cm )
Description:
Blown and tooled Venetian glass candlestick made of pink and green gilded glass; cylindrical pink socket is ribbed and has green, fluted rim; pink bobeche composed of eight naturalistic leaves; standard is tooled green dolphin with ribbed, S-shaped body; dolphin's tail joined to bobche with small knop, and head joined to naturalistic, eight leaf, pink base with wafer.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number:
1965.781a
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
24410
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Candlesticks (pair)
Classification:
Date:
1880-1920
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
overall: 8 5/8 x 4 in.
Description:
Pair of amber stained colorless cut lead glass candlesticks; blown socket with flaring, upturned rim with scalloped edge and fan-shaped cut border pattern; faceted, hexagonal knop above faceted hexagonal standard with oblong air bubble inside; base has six plain panels on top and sunburst on bottom.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number:
1965.852ab
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
24409
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Candlestick
Classification:
Date:
1880-1920
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 5/8 x 4 in. ( 21.9 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Amber stained colorless cut lead glass candlestick; blown socket with flaring, upturned rim with scalloped edge and fan-shaped cut border pattern; faceted, hexagonal knop above faceted hexagonal standard with oblong air bubble inside; base has six plain panels on top and sunburst on bottom.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number:
1965.852b
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
24408
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Candlestick
Classification:
Date:
1880-1920
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 5/8 x 4 in. ( 21.9 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Amber stained colorless cut lead glass candlestick; blown socket with flaring, upturned rim with scalloped edge and fan-shaped cut border pattern; faceted, hexagonal knop above faceted hexagonal standard with oblong air bubble inside; base has six plain panels on top and sunburst on bottom.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number:
1965.852a
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
24407
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Candlesticks (pair)
Classification:
Date:
1823-1845
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
overall: 10 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Description:
Pair of colorless cut lead glass candlesticks; baluster vase-shaped candle socket with bobeche with upturned rim cut with band of strawberry diamonds on body and fans on bobeche joined by cut wafer to hollow cylindrical stem with cut with design of interlocking circles with strawberry diamonds joined by faceted wafer to panel-cut pedestal base with a flat plinth in the shape of an eight-pointed star.
Credit Line:
Gift of Lena Cadwalader Evans
Object Number:
1936.698ab
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this candlestick is Irish, but its provenance and similarity to ther pieces of Brooklyn glass from the Corse family at the NYHS suggest that it may be a product of the Brooklyn Glass Works.
Bibliography:
Denker, Ellen Paul. "Collector' legacies." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 176-180.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
24406
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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