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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Candlestick

ca. 1837 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Candlestick of bone china painted with enamels and gilded. In the form of a leafy column with a figure of a peasant woman standing beside it. She wears a wide hat, yellow bodice, and pink skirt over a flowered petticoat, and holds up flowers in her apron. Circular base with gilt scrollwork, and flowers modelled and applied to the base and column.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Bone china painted with enamels, gilded and modelled
Brief description
Candlestick of bone china painted with enamels and gilded, Minton & Co., Stoke-on-Trent, ca. 1837.
Physical description
Candlestick of bone china painted with enamels and gilded. In the form of a leafy column with a figure of a peasant woman standing beside it. She wears a wide hat, yellow bodice, and pink skirt over a flowered petticoat, and holds up flowers in her apron. Circular base with gilt scrollwork, and flowers modelled and applied to the base and column.
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.5cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Aslin, Elizabeth and Atterbury, Paul, Minton, 1798-1910 , London, H.M.S.O., 1976
Collection
Accession number
C.699-1935

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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