{"id":5610,"date":"2020-08-25T05:55:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T09:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2020-08-25T05:55:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T09:55:59","slug":"united-states-glass-crucifix-candlestick-holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=5610","title":{"rendered":"United States Glass Crucifix Candlestick Holder"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I have come across these crucifix candlestick holders in books, but never before in ‘real life’.\u00a0 My children are Roman Catholics and I wondered if they would like to have this piece (they didn’t).\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n

There is an appendix devoted to these crucifixes in volume three of The Glass Candlestick Book by Tom Felt and Elaine & Rich Stoer.\u00a0 There are an astonishing number of variations on the theme.\u00a0 Felt and the Stoers indicate,”Glass candleholders depicting the crucifixion of Christ originated with [the] earliest American pattern glass companies.\u00a0 Boston and Sandwich, the New England Glass Company, McKee and many others from the New England, Pittsburgh, and Ohio areas produced them from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s.”<\/p>\n

If you have a chance to review this appendix, it is highly recommended.\u00a0 These candleholders have been lavishly photographed and some are very beautiful.<\/p>\n

This particular piece was likely produced in Factory C – Challinor, Taylor – circa 1891-1919.\u00a0 It came in three sizes and this piece is considered no. 4 sue to its height of 8 1\/2 inches.<\/p>\n

Felt & the Stoers comment that the rock-like base, floral design around the cup and wood grain of the cross make this one of the more ornate crucifix designs.<\/p>\n