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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory (Probably)
White stoneware, moulded, and salt-glazed
White stoneware moulded, and salt-glazed. The candlestick is in the form of a Corinthian column with a square drip-pan with gadrooned edges at the top. It rises from the raised centre of a square base with relief decoration on its upper surface
History note: Mr Stoner, London, from whom purchased for £11 on 1 August 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 31.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II or George III
Circa
1760
CE
-
1775
CE
This candlestick is similar to the form of silver and Sheffield plate candlesticks.
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Base
Depth 12.6 cm
Width 12.5 cm
off-white Stoneware
Press-moulding
: Off-white stoneware, press-moulded and salt-glazed
Salt-glazing
Inscription present: octagonal white paper stick-on label with a Prussian blue line round the sides and top
Accession number: C.562-1928
Primary reference Number: 75534
Old object number: 4234
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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