SOLD Pair of Super Sculptural Old Industrial Glass Washers (for Beakers?) New York city drawing HJG and HJP

HJG and HJP

just missing the toe on one foot

it measures approximately 7 inches at widest diameter

but once set up on a stand

SOLD Pair of Super Sculptural Old Industrial Glass Washers (for Beakers?) New York city drawing HJG and HJPWhen I found these the other day I had no idea what they were, I just thought they were really excellent looking, and a bit like make do miniature Christmas trees! I have since learned that they would have been used for washing glass, with the wire springs (which are held very taught) providing and abrasive surface, and with the threaded ends, looking like lightbulb sockets, screwing into some sort of industrial machine. Their conical shapes suggests