New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Candlestick

Artist Ercole Barovier (Italian, 1889-1974)

Manufacturer Barovier & Toso (Italian)

CultureItalian

Dateca. 1948

MediumSolid-worked glass

DimensionsOverall: 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of Sheri Sandler in memory of Sam and Reba Sandler

Object number97.42.5.1

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 117, Study Gallery Case 3, Section 2 Sh5

DescriptionThis candlstick is related in design to Barovier's "Primavera" series of the 1920s and This is one of a pair of candlesticks in the "Barocchi" technique. Each has two stepped bobeches and each bobeche is hidden by two clear glass leaves. The series (Primavera) was produced in 1948 and was the last of Barovier's use of clear glass.

Exhibition History"The Sheri Sandler Collection of 20th-Century Italian Glass," Chrysler Museum of Art, July 14, 1998 - November 7, 1999.