IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 141823 accession number: M.4-2007 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 1 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Copper alloy, with engraved decoration enamelled in white, and originally gilt. The stem comprises two cylindrical sections divided by a bulbous knop. At the top there is a spike surrounded by a circular wavy-edged drip pan. At the bottom there are three curved legs with stylized animal's head terminals and a circular hole at the upper end. This hole is threaded loosely onto a central bolt and held there by a nut, which permits them to swivel into a tripod stand, or fold together for travelling. The upper and lower parts of the stem are engraved with shallow crossed lines. The knop is deeply engraved with four panels of a geometrical pattern, and each leg on its upper edge by shallow scrolls within an outline, all filled with white enamel (much of it missing). A few very small areas of gilding remain on the legs. object type: Copper alloy, engraved and enamelled white, with small remnants of gilding on the three swivelling legs title: candlestick NOTES ----- type: history note value: Found in spoil from the Thames Exchange site, London, 1989 (recorded at the Museum of London); bought from Spink, London by the donor about 1990; lent to the Fitzwilliam in 2006 ; allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Cambridge in America LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Dr William J. Conte through Cambridge in America STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141823 CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1175 - 1225 creation date earliest: 1175 creation date latest: 1225 culture: 12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.7 CITATIONS -------- 3. The medieval travelling candlestick from Grove Priory, Bedfordshire. SP 923227 ---