PRESSED CRUCIFIX CANDLESTICK, translucent jade green (reacts under black light), thick-lipped hexagonal socket with a shorter extension joined by a wafer to the crucifix standard and raised on a tall stepped hexagonal base. Probably Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. 1840-1880. 11 3/8" H, 4 5/8" D base.
Published: Bourne - The William Elsholz Collection, Vol. III, p. 459, lot 1721.
Literature: Parallels Barlow/Kaiser - The Glass Industry in Sandwich, Vol 4, p. 61 fig. 4047; Spillman - American and European Pressed Glass, pl. 1108.
Provenance:
From the important 40-year collection of James Carusello, Waterbury, CT.
Jeffrey S. Evans (T/A GVA), 10/18/2008, lot 122 (retains auction label).
Ex-collection of Duff & Molly Allen (retains collection label).
Frank H. Boos Gallery, 2/13/1995, lot 491 (retains gallery label).
Ex-collection of Walter E. Simmons II.
Richard A. Bourne Co., Inc., 11/18/1987, lot 1721.
Ex-collection of William J. Elsholz (retains collection label).
Ex-collection of Katherine Woodward, 10/28/1955.
Undamaged, except for a slight flake to the mold line at one corner of the base.
























