PRESSED EYE AND SCALE HAND CANDLESTICK / CHAMBER STICK
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PRESSED EYE AND SCALE HAND CANDLESTICK / CHAMBER STICK, brilliant deep peacock blue, thick-lipped hexagonal socket applied with a thick hand-formed wafer to an Eye and Scale plate, applied ring-form handle with lower curl, rough pontil mark under base. Reserve. Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. 1830-1850. 3" H, 4 3/4" D plate.
Literature: Parallels B & K I, fig. 1058, "extremely rare".
Provenance: From the Greg & Joyce Prus collection of Plantsville, CT.
Northeast Auctions, 12/6/04, lot A47 and catalogue cover.
Ex-collection of Pamela & Donald Levine.
H. Richard Strand, Sandwich, MA.
Ex-collection of Lee Flournoy.
Exhibited: "Sensational Sandwich," Sandwich Glass Museum, 1995.
Catalogue Note: As Ray Barlow and Joan Kaiser note, this form is extremely rare. In addition, this is the only example recorded in this very desirable color. Among the top rarities of Boston & Sandwich glass and in pristine condition.
Literature: Parallels B & K I, fig. 1058, "extremely rare".
Provenance: From the Greg & Joyce Prus collection of Plantsville, CT.
Northeast Auctions, 12/6/04, lot A47 and catalogue cover.
Ex-collection of Pamela & Donald Levine.
H. Richard Strand, Sandwich, MA.
Ex-collection of Lee Flournoy.
Exhibited: "Sensational Sandwich," Sandwich Glass Museum, 1995.
Catalogue Note: As Ray Barlow and Joan Kaiser note, this form is extremely rare. In addition, this is the only example recorded in this very desirable color. Among the top rarities of Boston & Sandwich glass and in pristine condition.
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PRESSED EYE AND SCALE HAND CANDLESTICK / CHAMBER STICK
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