Collection Highlights
The Intelligence Office
1849
1959.46
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Candlestick
Object name
Candlestick
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
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.