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Candlestick
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Candlestick
- Place of origin:
Plymouth (made)
- Date:
ca. 1770 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Plymouth Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Smoke-stained glazed hard-paste porcelain
- Credit Line:
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
- Museum number:
414:689-1885
- Gallery location:
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery, case 12, shelf 4
Physical description
Candlestick, of smoke-stained glazed hard-paste porcelain, formed as a figure of a gardener with flowers standing in front of a tree on a high pedestal covered with applied flowers and supported on symmetrical rococo scrolled feet; he carries a plant in a flower pot under his right arm, and the trunk of the tree forms a support for the candle nozzle, which is missing
Place of Origin
Plymouth (made)
Date
ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/maker
Plymouth Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Materials and Techniques
Smoke-stained glazed hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions
Height: 24.4 cm
Object history note
The brownish colour is the result of smoke-staining during firing.
One of a pair of candlesticks with 414:689/A-1885 (Sch. I 685A)
Lady Charlotte Schreiber purchased the pair from Captain Lee's sale, Christie's, for £19 8 shillings 6 pence in June 1873.
Descriptive line
Candlestick, of smoke-stained glazed hard-paste porcelain, formed as a figure of a gardener with flowers standing in front of a tree on a high pedestal covered with applied flowers and supported on symmetrical rococo scrolled feet, Plymouth Porcelain Factory, ca. 1770
Materials
Porcelain
Techniques
Glazed
Subjects depicted
Man; Flowers; Gardener
Categories
Ceramics; Porcelain
Collection
Ceramics Collection
