Description: Thrown (?), red earthenware taperstick has a socket with horizontal ribbing at the top and base, the attached handle is square in section and forms an oval loop, the dish is a shallow circular saucer, the whole piece appears to be unglazed and painted all over in brown, there is a gilt band on the candle socket. Possibly part of the Burton N. Gates collection. Could be Gates #121, notecard reads, "Cup and saucer candle stick. Red clay: painted. 2.5 in high./ Ornamentally turned: Painted decoration. Possibly Sterling./ Col. Gardner 1911." New England redware expert Justin Thomas attributed this candlestick to the Clark Pottery, c. 1870s.
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