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Figure 4 is an earthenware figure of a reclining Bacchus supporting 

 a floriated candle socket. This is a modern conception. (Cat. No. 

 129408, Italy; Mrs. E. S. Brinton, 4.1 inches (10.5 cm.) long.) 



GLAZED POTTKEI AND GLASS CANDLESTICKS 



The candlestick on its material side reflects to some extent periods 

 of culture and phases of art. A North African candlestick of 

 earthenware glazed and decorated with ornamentation in deep blue 

 is a worthy exhibit of native handiwork and art. (PL 15, fig. 1, 

 collected at Tetuan, Morocco, by Dr. and Mrs. Talcott Williams; 

 16.3 inches (41 cm.) high.) As a rule, earthenware candlesticks 

 offer great difficulties in manufacture and are, therefore, not so 

 common as those made of finer materials by modern processes of 

 manufacture. Among the almost infinite kinds and conditions of 

 modern candlesticks it is possible to touch but few and those of the 

 average within the means of the average people. One example of a 

 highly glazed stoneware is shown in Plate 14, Figure 14. It dates 

 about 1870 and was made in Hungary. (Cat. No. 325622, Centennial 

 Exposition, Philadelphia, 6.7 inches (17 cm.) high.) Porcelain was 

 a favorite medium for candlesticks. The pair shown in Plate 14, 

 Figures 11 and 12, are of Liverpool china and date about 1820. 

 (Cat. No. 317638, England; Mrs. N. L. White; 8.3 inches (21 cm.) 

 high.) The pair marked Figure 15 on the plate are German, prob- 

 ably (Royal Saxon) Meissen, and date near 1800. (Cat. No. 289428, 

 Germany, Anton Heitmuller; 8.3 inches (21 cm.) high.) Figure 

 13 is of dark green cut glass of Bohemian manufacture, about 1840. 

 (Cat. No. 300321, Czechoslovakia; Mrs. C. E. Danforth; 10.6 incheg 

 (27 cm.) high.) 



SILVBE AND PLATE CANDLBS'nCKS 



The technic of the brass worker is radically different from that 

 of the silversmith. The brass worker descends in the line of the 

 bronze and cast-iron workers of antiquity, while the silver worker! 

 emerges with the pattern maker (perhaps of lamps) of old Rome. 

 The difference is between casting and beating or pressure. It is 

 understood, of course, that brass was often beaten in the method of 

 silver and copper, but neither of the latter was cast as a practical 

 method of working. The candlestick figured on Plate 16, Figure 3, 

 is a case in point. It is an old Sheffield Baroque candlestick made 

 of sheet copper silvered by rolling that metal with copper by the 

 well-known Sheffield process. The socket roundels, swell of the stem, 

 are formed by spinning, beating, or other processes and joined to 

 form the candlestick. (Cat. No. 311537, England, Elizabeth S. 

 Stevens; 11.7 inches (30 cm.) high.) The base of this candlestick 

 is loaded and covered with coarse green baize. Two pairs of desk 

 candlesticks of silver are good examples of the silversmith's art and 



