Candlestick
date: label: date made
content: 1820-1840
notes: label: Description
content: This candlestick was owned in the Copp family home in Stonington, Connecticut during the 18th and 19th century. The oval candlestick has an oval, single-reeded, removable nozzle with rolled edge and flared candle cup or socket atop a plain, single-seamed stem with single bead at top and molded band at bottom above the oval, trumpet-shaped, molded base with grooved border.
label: Description
content: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
label: place made
content: Europe
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Copp Collection
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.006814.01
label: accession number
content: 28810
label: catalog number
content: 6814.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: candlestick
label: Object Type
content: Candleholders
label: Object Type
content: candleholders
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (bottom material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 4 3/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 17.145 cm x 11.1125 cm x 8.89 cm