Collection Highlights
Swing Low: A Harriet Tubman memorial
2007
2009.34
Cast bronze
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Museum Collections
Decorative Arts
Candlesticks (pair)
Object name
Candlesticks (pair)
Date
1840-1855
Medium
Glass
Dimensions
each: 7 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Description
Pair of yellow pressed lead glass candlesticks; hexagonal socket with petal-form rim on hexagonal baluster stem joined by wafer to hexagonal knop above a seven-loop trumpet-shaped base; base hollow with pontil mark.
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number
1965.867ab
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
