IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75479
accession number:	C.544-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 27 January 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: White stoneware, moulded in parts, assembled, and salt-glazed. The candlestick is in the form of a gnarled tree-trunk growing on the left side of a high rocky base with a wavy edge, partly covered with moss, and hollow underneath. The trunk and its short branches are ornamented with small moulded flowers and serrated trefoil leaves. The candle-socket is formed by large overlapping leaves, and next to it, perching on a short branch is a bird resembling a pigeon.
title:	candlestick

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Frederick Rathbone, London, in March 1913; sold to Mr Sheldon; bought from Mr Sheldon by Cyril Andrade, London, who sold it for £50 on 29 March 1922 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75479

PEOPLE
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Rathbone, Frederick
Sheldon, Edward

SUBJECTS
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lighting
flower
bird
flower
bird



TECHNIQUES
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moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware
category: white salt-glazed stoneware

DATING
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creation date:	1755 - 1765
creation date earliest:	1755
creation date latest:	1765
culture:	18th Century, third quarter#
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 28.3



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Exhibition of Early English Earthenware
CITATIONS
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Illustrated Catalogue of Early English Earthenware
Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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