Porcelain Figure Mounted as a Two-Light Candelabra (One of a Pair)
date: label: Date
content: 18th or 19th century
name: label: Possibly
content: Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Porcelain Chinoiserie figure of a young boy dressed in a lavender robe with flowered shawl, wearing a leaf cap and yellow slippers, prancing beneath an ormolu bell-hung canopy on rustic supports; the base fitted with two scrolling enleafed candle arms bearing porcelain flowers.
place: label: manufactured in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Howard J. Sachs and Mr. Peter G. Sachs in memory of Miss Edith L. Sachs
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1978-168-75
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: candelabra
label: Type
content: candelabra
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: porcelain, vitreous enamel, bronze, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 31.8 x 28.5 x 18.3cm (12 1/2 x 11 1/4 x 7 3/16in.)