Round, wide base with green felt on bottom. Acanthus leaf/shield molded design around top of base, bottom and top of neck, and around lip. Top is urn-shaped.
Provenance
Gettysburg Chapter of D.A.R. Ownership is unknown beyond the donor.
Round, bowl-like base, rounded lip with curved, open, finger-handle ending in hole in which cone-shaped snuffer fits. Central candle holder, tall with 3 bands of 3 lines around. A vertical cut slot is on one side of the stem that has a curled lever to push the candle up in the stem as it is consumed by the flame.
Straight pair of brass candlesticks with a spring. Christian Cornelius, a Dutch immigrant silversmith, founded the Cornelius lighting business in 1827, which became Cornelius, Baker, and Company in 1835. ... The firm began by making brass lighting fixtures but later also made zinc fixtures and sculptures. The business was succeeded by Cornelius and Sons and Baker, Arnold and Company in 1869.
Rounded square base with raised, flaring sides, rounded lip. Open finger loop handle in which cone snuffer rests. Round tubular candle holder at center on raised area. Has bands of line decoration and knob for raising candle. Also attached, small tab wit
Rectangular white marble base. Ornately cast gilded bronze stem enhanced with scroll-shaped leaves, birds, blossoms and snails. An oval-shaped cast brass collar surmounts the stem with flat glass crystal prisms.
Girandole candlesticks featuring an Elizabethen couple; adapted to burn oil by the insertion of a peg lamp, which is a heavy ribbed glass reservoir situated behind the two-part crystal prisms. A glass peg was sized to fit the socket originally meant for a candle.
Width, depth are for base of candlesticks. Diameter given is for opening of globe top. Given height includes glass globe. Height without globe is 15.5'.
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2022-01-28
Object ID
W.1989.089.001
Notes
Globes missing from two of the three girandoles. Deed of gift credits donors with giving a pair of girandoles. Deed of gift cites girandoles as both having globes.
Credit
Mrs. Frank (Dorothy) Skilton, Mrs. Willard (Virginia) Workman
Hanging oil lamp that was converted to electricity. 'S' curved links to clear glass smoke dome. Three chains from dome to lamp in shape of spittoon. Connected to band around neck by ornate metal hook. Glass is smoked and etched with daisy-like flowers and berry clusters. Lower metal reservoir round, box-like with pendant finial; formerly held oil, molded on sides with bell shaped flowers and leaves.
A clear egg-shaped glass globe etched with flowers and fauna decor. At globe's base is a bronze collar featuring acanthus leaf decor, which supports the bronze bobeche that features a ringed finial. The top bronze collar on the globe has high relief leaf buds and acanthus decor on the collar surface. Three bent acanthus leaves form the bronze hooks that support three chains that connect to base of a hook above a disc-shaped glass shade. A separate larger chain hooks to a ceiling mounted iron hook.
Brass and glass lamp. Converted to electricity. Marble base is square with brass stem that resembles a column. Lamp globe is frosted with designs in clear glass. Globe is wide at bottom and much narrower at top. Prisms hang from base of globe.
Sinumbra lamp, oil reservoir in shape of ring. Globe in shape of inverted footed bowl. globe etched with flowers and geometric designs. Central pillar is fluted column ending in flared foliate. Crystals hand from pierced ring at neck. Base is tall, octagonal.
