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

Candlestick

Manufacturer Cambridge Glass Co.

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1925

MediumPressed glass | Gilt

DimensionsOverall: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
Overall, Rim: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
Base: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)

InscribedOriginal paper chamfered corner rectangular label on bottom: "Los/226/ASURITE/150". Only on one, not specified which one.

Credit LineGift of Orva Walker Heissenbuttel in honor of her grandsons, Inigo Walker Howlett and Owen Trowbridge Howlett, the Orva Collection of Ohio Glass

Object number85.60A

Not on view

DescriptionCandlestick of pressed two-sectioned mold glass. Azurite (opaque medium blue) glass. Solid cylindrical stem with an angular knop at the top below small socket & at the bottom above the round foot. Foot is decorated with a floral gilt band. Gilt lines on knops and on socket rim. One of a pair, see 85.60B.

Published ReferencesArcher, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GLASS CANDLESTICKS, 1983, pp. 14-15. National Cambridge Collectors, Inc., COLORS IN CAMBRIDGE GLASS, pl. 4, row 1, #3. Archer, GLASS CANDLESTICKS, pl. IV, pg. 16, bottom row 2 & 3 for style.