Lot 36
36
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An English pearlware two-handled slender baluster candlestick

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An English pearlware two-handled slender baluster candlestick
the nozzle moulded with a stiff leaf band above a turnover leaf-moulded drip pan and gadrooned neck, the swelling body applied with scroll handles above masks, suspending pendant swags of husk ornament, above leaf-moulded lower section and socle base, enriched in blue, circa 1790 -- 28cm. high
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Lot Essay

Cf. Peter Walton, Creamware and other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House, Leeds (1976), pp. 125-127, no. 486 for a creamware example attributed to the Whiteheads in comparison to an example in the Manchester City Art Gallery similar to the present lot.

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