PRESSED HEXAGONAL PAIR OF CANDLESTICKS, brilliant medium blue, each large size, having an urn-form socket with a double-knop extension, raised on a hexagonal base with a ringed standard, wafer construction. Probably Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. 1840-1860. 9 1/8" H, 4 1/2" DOA bases.
Literature: Parallels Barlow/Kaiser - The Glass Industry in Sandwich, Vol. 4, p. 49, fig. 4024.
Provenance: Glass deaccessioned by Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT. All proceeds will go toward the museum's Collections Acquisition Fund.
Ex-collection of Channing Hare.
One proof; other nearly proof with a single minor chip to the underside of one base point. Proof example having a minor open bubble at one base point; each having some expected light mold roughness around the base edge, all as made.