AN OPAQUE-WHITE CANDLESTICK, the cylindrical nozzle with everted rim and the domed foot painted with loose bouquets and scattered flowers, with a spirally incised slender stem (stem repaired and with small chip to collar at base), South Staffordshire, circa 1760

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AN OPAQUE-WHITE CANDLESTICK, the cylindrical nozzle with everted rim and the domed foot painted with loose bouquets and scattered flowers, with a spirally incised slender stem (stem repaired and with small chip to collar at base), South Staffordshire, circa 1760
16cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. the examples from the Rous Lench Collection sold in these Rooms on 30 May 1990, lots 575 - 578 and the taperstick sold in these Rooms on 16 October 1990, lot 34. For a discussion on the attribution of English opaque-white glass see R.J. Charleston, 'Michael Edkins and the Problem of English Enamelled Glass', Transactions of the Society of Glass Technology, 1954
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