A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE CANDLESTICK GROUP

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A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE CANDLESTICK GROUP
CIRCA 1755

Modelled as two cranes, each standing on either side of a bamboo candle-holder and raised on a decagonal shaped mound base moulded and applied with flowers (one head and neck restored, three ankles cracked)--11¾in. (30cm.) high

Provenance

Carleton L. Safford, Massachusetts, 1963

Literature

Mrs. Donald MacAlister, E.C.C. Transactions No. 1, Early Staffordshire China, 1933, pl. XI
Antiques Magazine, October 1964, cover illustration

Lot Essay

Cf. Bernard Rackham, The Glaisher Collection, Cambridge, 1935, no. 812, for a single white example; Griselda Lewis, English Pottery, London, 1956, fig. 108, for a coloured pair in the British Museum; Leslie B. Grigsby, The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery..., London, 1990, no. 170 for a discussion and single coloured example