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IMPORTANT FREE-BLOWN RING DECORATED CANDLESTICK, c

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IMPORTANT FREE-BLOWN RING DECORATED CANDLESTICK, colorless with a slight gray cast, deep cylindrical socket with a slight galleried rim, joined by a triple-ring wafer to a hollow tall cylindrical stem decorated with six applied and tooled triangular rings, joined by a double wafer to a tooled, slightly-flattened beehive domed foot with rough pontil mark. Possibly Boston & Sandwich Glass Co., or Thomas Cains' South Boston Flint Glass Works or his Phoenix Glass Works, South Boston, MA . 1813-1835. 9" high, 2" diameter rim, 5" diameter foot .
Reference: Parallels B & K I, fig. 1269.
Parallels Wilson/NE, p. 219.
Provenance: The Duff & Molly Allen Collection. H. Richard Strand, 9/17/87
Note: A most elegant and stately example of two distinctive decorative techniques used by early 19th century glassworkers

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