Candlestick
1866 (dated)
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Candlestick of earthenware painted with enamels. Decorated with grotesques, mermen and masks, and foliate decoration in Renaissance style. Circular base with a variously knopped stem and circular top flange.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware painted with enamels |
| Brief description | Candlestick of earthenware painted with enamels, Ulysse Besnard, Blois, France, dated 1866. |
| Physical description | Candlestick of earthenware painted with enamels. Decorated with grotesques, mermen and masks, and foliate decoration in Renaissance style. Circular base with a variously knopped stem and circular top flange. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | '66 Blois' and 'V+' (Painted in blue. The mark derives from the sign of the convent 'la Croix-des-Pèlerins' adjacent to Besnard's pottery.) |
| Object history | One of a pair with 548-1869. Ulysse Besnard was a ceramic painter, a curator at Blois museum and taught at the school of design there. He established a pottery works in rue Levée in 1862 to reproduce earlier wares. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Demmin,A.: Guide de l' Amateur de Faiences et Porcelaines; 1873, vol. II, p.643 |
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| Accession number | 547-1869 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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