Candlesticks, pair

PeriodCirca 1810-1820

Place MadeEngland

MediumFeldspathic white stoneware with smear glaze, polychrome enamels

Dimensions1979.501.75.1: 4.31 × 2.88 × 2.88 in. (11 × 7.3 × 7.3 cm)
1979.501.75.2: 4.38 × 3 × 3 in. (11.1 × 7.6 × 7.6 cm)

MarkingsBase of 1979.501.75.1 marked with "I". On both sticks label glued to underside "Guitel Monague/579 Madison Ave. N.Y. /Castleford/Ca. 1810/Guarenteed genuine." Also tagged "2885/J.B. Morris, Jr."

ClassificationsStoneware

Credit LineGift of J.B. Morris, Jr., 1957.

Object number1979.501.75

DescriptionPair of short candlesticks, with square tapered base with hollow column and flat flange. Blue flower with green leaves on each side of base. Columns of half-circles in pink and aqua with brown bands decorate stick with yellow lambrequin band around top. Dark blue enamel on prominent molded border areas.
NotesAlthough the label on both candlesticks guarentee both are from the Castleford Pottery, it may be that both pieces were produced by one of the many potteries operating in the same vicintiy, producing similar pieces to the Dunerdale & Sons concern. The Dunerdales were unusually efficient in marking their pieces. A related candlestick, 1979.501.181, has been attributed to Chetham & Woolley of Lane End. Feldspathic stoneware pieces were often left unglazed, since the high temperatures of the kiln and the high feldspar content of the clay body produced a low-gloss self or smear-glaze.

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