Ceramic candlestick. Domed hexagonal base with three tiers. Top tier has three circular rings, middle tier has two circular rings, bottom tier is a flat hexagonal platform. Dark purple glaze. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark on bottom.
candlesticks
ceramic (material)
Candlestick
Butterfly mark (Written in black ink. Butterfly has small head, one antennae, diamond shaped wings, fish shaped body.)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Phillips, Nannie Jencks (Borden), 1877-1963
8 3/4 (H), 5 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1762
Historic New England is committed to implementing reparative language description for existing collections and creating respectful and inclusive language description for new collections. If you encounter language in Historic England's Collections Access Portal that is harmful or offensive, or you find materials that would benefit from a content warning, please contact [email protected].