A pair of creamware candlesticks
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A pair of creamware candlesticks, circa 1790-1800
Attributed to Whitehead & Co. of Hanley, well-designed after silver prototypes, of square section with gadrooned borders, the columns finely fluted, 24.8cm high (crack in one nozzle, chips) (2)
Sold for £1,062 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance: The Donald Towner Collection. Illustrated by Donald Towner, Creamware (1978), p.85, pl.34A. These candlesticks correspond closely with the illustrations in the Whitehead pattern book published in 1798.

Category: Decorative Arts / British Ceramics

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