New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Candlestick

Manufacturer Ellison & Flint Glass Works

Designer John Sowerby (British, d. 1914)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1878

MediumPressed glass

DimensionsOverall: 10 in. (25.4 cm)
Overall, Rim: 2 1/8 x 2 1/8 in. (5.4 x 5.4 cm)
Base: 4 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (12.1 x 12.1 cm)

InscribedMarked on bottom in relief: peacock head trademark and round: "QUEENANN CANDLESTICK/J.MORTLOCK & CO./OXFORD'S & ORCHARD'S/LONDON".

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number82.146

Not on view

Label TextGLASS FOR THE MASSES A great revolution in glassmaking technology occurred in the mid-nineteenth century: the machine press. First developed in America in the late 1820s, it was quickly adopted by the British glass industry. Machine presses required less-skilled laborers and allowed for greater productivity in the factory. Thus, glassware became less expensive for the growing consumer market. Even a middle-class home in the mid-nineteenth century could afford a complete table setting of pressed glass in a matching pattern. Pressed glass often imitated more expensive cut glass, but increasingly featured more fashionable styles or cutting-edge colors for a highly decorative effect. Designed by John Sowerby English (d. 1914) Ellison & Flint Glass Works Gateshead-on-Tyne, England Candlestick, ca. 1878 Pressed glass Museum purchase 82.146 Exhibition History"Cheers to Queen Victoria: British Glass from the Chrysler Collection," Waitzer Community Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, September 22, 2010 - March 20, 2011.Published ReferencesC. Manley, DECORATIVE VICTORIAN GLASS, pp. 106-107, #383. Corning Catalog, PRESSED GLASS 1825-1925, #29, pp. 43 & 47. R.J. Charleston, ENGLISH GLASS, Black Edition, pl. 63d & pg. 228. ARS CERAMICA, #4, 1987, pg. 18, 1798 Whitehead catalog illus. almost a duplicate. Northern Ceramic Society NEWSLETTERS, 62 & 63, nearly an exact copy of this creamware piece made by Whitehead in the 18th century.