Description:
English delft one-piece candlestick with an overall manganese purple speckled or powdered ground decoration - there are also a few dots of cobalt in the ground mixture. The tall candlestick has a wide circular domed base, central shaft, wide mid-shaft drip pan to catch melting wax, and flat flange. With its distinctive mid-level drip pan, the form of this candlestick copied a metalware prototype of the mid-17th century made in England and the Low Countries. Many wares of this time were left in white or undecorated, using only the modeled form and a thick white glaze for coverage. Decoration consisting of the use of an overall speckled manganese-purple was used in London, Brislington, and Bristol from at least 1628 until the later part of the 17th century. Subsequently a dense powdered manganese was used, well into the 18th century. During the earlier period the manganese ground was usually the sole decoration. It is thought that the manganese ground might be an imitation of Continental Rhenish brown stonewares. Wares decorated with powder-ground (the surface of the white glaze was dusted or pounced with a second dry colored glaze before firing) were less common, but many fragments have been found in Southwark associated with the Pickleherring Pottery. In America excavated sherd have been found in the 17th-century settlement at Jamestown island in Virginia. A white delftware candlestick stem with mid drip pan has been found at the Thomas Homewood lot in Providence (now Annapolis), Maryland, ca. 1660-1680 context. These fragments were recovered from Homewood’s Lot “Building A” cellar.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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