PRESSED PETAL AND LOOP CANDLESTICK, electric blue, having a six-petal socket with a hexagonal extension, raised on a hexagonal knop extension, raised on a hexagonal knop and seven-loop circular base, rough pontil mark, wafer construction. Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. 1840-1860. 7" H, 4 1/4" D base.
Literature: Parallels Barlow/Kaiser - The Glass Industry in Sandwich, Vol. 4, p. 53, fig. 4032.
Provenance:
From the important 40-year collection of James Carusello, Waterbury, CT.
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, 9/26/2009, lot 477 (retains auction label).
Ex-New York State collection.
Good condition, having a flake to the top edge of one socket petal and a shallow chip to the top edge of another, roughness/flaking to the underside of two socket petals, an as-made open bubble to the base edge, some roughness around the top edge of the base.



























