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Candlestick Holder

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1700-1799

GUSN

GUSN-3048

Description

Wrought iron hanging candleholder, in hook form, tall and narrow and twisted at the center of the stem; has long, folded and soldered iron candlecup at the end of the bottom hook.

Details

Descriptive Terms

candlesticks
iron (metal)
wrought
Iron
Wrought
Twisted
CANDLESTICK

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

14.25 x 2 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1539

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