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  • We acquired this object.

1924

  • Work on this object began.

1934

  • Work on this object ended.

2017

2025

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Pair Of Candelabra And A Single Place Setting

This is a Pair of Candelabra and a Single Place Setting. It was manufactured by Steuben Glass Works. It is dated ca. 1929–30. Its medium is black glass with green overlay.

Contrasted color with jet black was a popular motif in fashion as well as decorative design in the 1920s, as evident in this line of glass designed by Frederick Carder and produced by the Steuben Glass factory in Corning, New York, about 1929.

It is credited Private Midwest collection.

  • Water Goblet (USA)
  • glass.
  • Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
  • 1993-54-1

Its dimensions are

H (candlestick): 30.8 cm (12 1/8 in.) Diam. (dinner plate): 25.4 cm (10 in.) Overall: allow for 20 x 20 in.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

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