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Candlestick
Candlestick, earthenware, columnar form with wide spreading base, cylindrical shaft with raised bands around the top and bottom, and a classical vase-shaped sconce with wide flaring rim; the decoration reserved against a black enamel ground so that the red earthenware body is revealed, this then transfer-printed in black with to the shaft the figures of four winged cupids with arrows and flaming torches, an egg and dart border to the foot-rim, shoulder and neck, an elongated egg and dart border to the lower shaft, a radiating tongue border to the base and to the rim.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31845
Acquisition
Purchase, 30/3/1940
Measurements
Height
(cm): 21.3
diam
(cm): 12
Height
(in): 8
diam
(in): 4
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
turned
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
glaze
Location
In store
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