Two-light candlestick: C.34B-1932

Maker(s)

Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Entities

• Two-light candlestick
• figural candlestick

Categories

• Soft-paste porcelain

Description

Soft-paste porcelain candlestick, one of a pair with C.34A-1932.In the form of a cherub holding two candle branches and a basket of flowers, seated on a high base with three scroll feet.

Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, lead-glazed, painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, flesh-pink, pale purple, pale brown and black enamels and gilded. The glaze is slightly green where it lies thickly, and has crazed. The candlestick is in the form of a winged Cupid supporting two scrolled branches terminating in candle nozzles and drip-pans, attached to the arms by means of a screw, rivet and nut. He sits on a high base with three elaborately scrolled feet, and a flat back. His flesh is tinted in pink, and he has short pale brown hair, and wing feathers touched with blue and pale purple. He is nude except for a polychrome floral garland passing across his body from his left shoulder to his right hip, and a band and bow on his right arm, from which is suspended a mainly gold drape which covers the lower part of his body at the front, and ends by his left calf. He has a quiver by his left side. The candle branches, their nozzles, and drip-pans are outlined in gold, as are the scrolls on the base. Its top is decorated with a large purple, red, and green butterfly. On the back the edges are outlined in green and gold.

Notes

History note: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth

Legal notes

Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

Place(s) associated

• Chelsea ⪼ Middlesex ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1932) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs

Dating

Gold anchor period (1759-69)
18th Century, third quarter#
Circa 1758 CE - 1784 CE