Candelabra
date: label: date made
content: 1816
notes: label: Description
content: Five-arm candelabra consisting of a central stem with urn-and-tapered columnar shaft on circular base that holds a four-branch section with fixed spiraling arms and a central candle cup or socket fitted with a nozzle and flame-finial cover that springs from a lily pad-like form. Gadrooning with shells at edges of nozzle, drip pans, urn on shaft, and top of base. Acanthus covers lower bodies of urn-shaped candle cups, both ends of arms, and lower half of shaft. Four-part shaft screws together; iron plate on bottom. Underside of four-branch section and outside edge of base are struck with two eight-pointed suns or stars. Bottom inside of all candle cups struck with a bellflower motif.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Birmingham, Birmingham
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dorothy Crane, in memory of Major General and Mrs. Harry K. Rutherford
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.70.0087
label: catalog number
content: 70.0087
label: accession number
content: 287590
objectType: label: Object Name
content: candelabra
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 1/8 in x 14 3/8 in x 17 in; 61.2775 cm x 36.5125 cm x 43.18 cm