Collection Highlights
Slave shackles
ca. 1866
1921.20
Steel
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Candlestick
Object name
Candlestick
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).
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
