Candlestick
Classification:
Date:
1900-1930
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 x 4 3/4 in. ( 20.3 x 12.1 cm )
Description:
Colorless blown lead glass candlestick; deep cylindrical socket with flaring, slightly down-turned rim; annular knop below bobeche and above hollow, baluster-shaped standard; conical foot.
Object Number:
INV.560
Gallery Label:
Lack of wear indicates that this candlestick may be a twentieth century reproduction of an early nineteenth century form.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1930
eMuseum Object ID:
24370
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Chamberstick
Classification:
Date:
1780-1820
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/2 x 5 in. ( 14 x 12.7 cm )
Description:
Aquamarine blown glass chamberstick; deep cylindrical socket with cut rim and scrolling handle extending from rim to top of stem; solid stem composed of four attached knops; base with upturned rim and downward folded edge.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1951.360
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this chamberstick was purchased by the donor in November of 1916 at the Sun Dial Shop, for $25.00.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
24369
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Decanter and stopper
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1823-1845
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 3/4 x 3 in. ( 22.2 x 7.6 cm )
Description:
Colorless cut lead glass decanter with stopper; compressed mallet-shaped body with cylindrical neck with three applied rings and wide flared lip; body cut with strawberry diamonds, rings cut with facets, lip cut with scallops, bottom cut with rays; mushroom-form stopper with knop below cut with rays and facets.
Credit Line:
Gift of Lena Cadwalader Evans
Object Number:
1936.696ab
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this object belonged to either Abigail Cornell (1766-1854) who married Israel Corse in 1810, or to Angeline Burr, wife of Morris Ketchum (1796-1880).
Bibliography:
Denker, Ellen Paul. "Collector' legacies." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 176-180.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
24368
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Decanter with stopper
Classification:
Date:
1823-1845
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 3/4 x 3 in. ( 22.2 x 7.6 cm )
Description:
Colorless cut lead glass decanter with stopper; compressed mallet-shaped body with cylindrical neck with three applied rings and wide flared lip; body cut with strawberry diamonds, rings cut with facets, lip cut with scallops, bottom cut with rays; mushroom-form stopper with knop below cut with rays and facets.
Credit Line:
Gift of Lena Cadwalader Evans
Object Number:
1936.697ab
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this object belonged to either Abigail Cornell (1766-1854) who married Israel Corse in 1810, or to Angeline Burr, wife of Morris Ketchum (1796-1880).
Bibliography:
Denker, Ellen Paul. "Collector' legacies." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 176-180.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
24367
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Candlestick
Classification:
Date:
1840-1860
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 7/8 x 3 7/8 in. ( 14.9 x 9.8 cm )
Description:
Dark amber blown glass candlestick; deep cylindrical socket on hollow stem with three tooled knops; hollow, slightly domed foot with pontil mark.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1952.184
Gallery Label:
This candlestick was probably made in a Connecticut or New Hamshire bottleglass house, and proves that bottleglass houses continued to make refined forms from common glass batches (see publications).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
24366
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Butter cooler, cover, and stand
Classification:
Date:
1823-1845
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall (With Cover and Stand): 5 × 6 1/4 × 5 in. (12.7 × 15.9 × 12.7 cm)
Description:
Colorless cut lead glass butter cooler, cover, and stand; oval bowl cut with strawberry diamonds and fans on the flared rim and and on the body a horizontal band of pointed arches filled with strawberry diamonds or stars; oval domed lid with knop cut with panels and strawberry diamonds and a horizontal band of pointed arches filled with strawberry diamonds or stars; oval stand with scalloped rim cut with strawberry diamonds and fans and bottom cut with radiating rays.
Credit Line:
Gift of Lena Cadwalader Evans
Object Number:
1936.695a-c
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this object belonged to either Abigail Cornell (1766-1854) who married Israel Corse in 1810, or to Angeline Burr, wife of Morris Ketchum (1796-1880).
Bibliography:
Denker, Ellen Paul. "Collector' legacies." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 176-180.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
24365
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Platter: railroad train pattern
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1869
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 7/8 x 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. ( 2.2 x 30.2 x 22.5 cm )
Description:
Colorless pressed lead glass platter; octagonal with concave corners, with pairs of leaves with stippled background on four straight sides, and perspective view of steam locomotive pulling three railroad cars at center.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Weber Hill Arkenburgh
Object Number:
1948.342a
Marks:
in inverted relief: on front of train: "350"
Gallery Label:
According to accession records, this platter was probably made to commemorate the opening of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1869.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1869
eMuseum Object ID:
24364
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil lamp
Classification:
Date:
1847-1855
Medium:
Glass, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/2 x 4 x 1/4 in. ( 31.8 x 10.2 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Opaque blue and white pressed lead glass oil lamp; opaque light blue font with domed top and hexagonal ogee-shaped body molded with acanthus leaves on short beaded pedestal joined by wafer to opaque white base with baluster stem molded with acanthus leaves on a square, two-step plinth; brass threaded collar and pontil mark.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number:
1965.909a
Gallery Label:
The dome of the font was formed with the Magoun patent method. Developed by Joseph Magoun of the New England Works in 1847, eliminated mold marks by using a hinged, three-part mold to form the body of the font and a one-piece cylindrical mold to form a cylinder that was then tooled to form the dome.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
24363
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil lamp
Classification:
Date:
1847-1860
Medium:
Glass, brass
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/4 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. ( 28.6 x 8.9 x 8.9 cm )
Description:
Colorless pressed lead glass oil lamp; hexagonal font with domed top; two indented squared ovals on each panel; font joined with wafer to standard and base in form of square pedestal; brass collar.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number:
1965.916g
Gallery Label:
The domed top of this lamp's font was formed by using the Magoun Patent method. This method, invented by Joseph Magoun of the New England Glass Company in 1847, eliminated moldmarks by using a hinged, three-part mold to form the sides of the font and a one-piece cylindrical mold to form a cylinder that was then tooled to form the dome.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
24362
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil lamp
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1825-1835
Medium:
Glass, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 x 3 x 3 in. ( 22.9 x 7.6 x 7.6 cm )
Description:
Colorless lead glass oil lamp with blown font and pressed base; conical font joined by three annular knops to base with three circular steps on flat plinth with canted corners; tin and cork double wick holder for whale oil.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1098
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this lamp was fueled with camphene, a fuel made of a distillation of camphor.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
24361
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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