Lot Essay
See Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, (eds.), op. cit., p. 340 for a page from the Minton pattern books illustrating the double and the single candlesnuffer-stands
Details
A MINTON NEW STONE CANDLE-SNUFFER-STAND printed and coloured with green ribbon knotted and entwined around pink roses, modelled as two conical snuffers with butterfly handles on a canted rectangular tray (one snuffer chipped), impressed marks, pattern number A2563, circa 1860, 6in. (15cm.) wide; a matching candlestick (damaged); two similar candle-snuffer-stands, one with unmatching snuffers (damaged) and a single candle-snuffer-stand (7)