Twisted shaft with hook to one side; taper candle cup at top and extended arm with ring on square drip pan, raised on a tripod base, and additional upright attached to drip pan with hook at midsection and extending through ring to hold candle in place.
alpine candleholders
iron (metal)
wrought
Iron
Wrought
CANDLESTICK
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
8.5 x 4.125 x 4.375 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.252
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