6/1992-2
Collection
Ceramics
Brief description
One of a pair of moulded creamware candlesticks with a square stepped base, made in Staffordshire or Yorkshire c.1785.
Object name
candlestick
Object number
6/1992-2
Location
On Display
Production date
c.1785 (manufactured)
Production place
Staffordshire (manufactured)
Period
Georgian (1714-1837)
Material
earthenware
glaze
glaze
Technique
glazed
moulded
fired
moulded
fired
Physical description
Moulded creamware candlestick with a square stepped base with gadrooned decoration. The stem has a square tapering fluted column with reeded decoration, surmounted by a square socket and square drip tray, also with gadrooning.
Dimensions
Height: 29cm
Website keywords
candle and rush lighting
Label
Label text for a touchscreen computer programme displayed in the exhibition At Home with the World, Geffrye Museum (20 March 2012- 9 September 2012). The following information was provided alongside images of a drawing by Robert Adam in the Soane Museum collection (Adam vol.56/88), a picture of the Parthenon, Athens and a print from Vitruvious' Ten Books of Architecture in the RIBA collection, Cesare Cesariano, Di Lucio Vitruvio Pollione de architectura libri dece (Como, 1521), Book 4, p. 63:
Introduction:
The shape of this candlestick was inspired by the columns of an ancient temple. Eighteenth-century English candlestick makers produced candlesticks that reflected neoclassical ideals of simple and harmonious forms. Creamware, a type of ceramic, was a particularly favoured material by the middling ranks and was associated with 'politeness'.
Global Connections, Europe, Italy
Ruins and excavations revealed the wonders of ancient Roman architecture to English visitors in the eighteenth century. They inspired the neoclassical designs of architects and designers like Robert Adam, who drew this sketch of Roman ruins in c.1756.
Global Connections, Europe, Greece
The architectural rules that underpinned classical design were filtered through Roman sources but originated in Ancient Greece. Greek influence became more prominent in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Ancient Authorities
The classical architectural orders outlined in ancient Roman treatises like Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were taken as an authority for design. Classical ideals of a balanced sense of proportion governed by reason, elegance and restraint and were closely related to social concerns for ‘politeness’ in eighteenth-century English society.
Introduction:
The shape of this candlestick was inspired by the columns of an ancient temple. Eighteenth-century English candlestick makers produced candlesticks that reflected neoclassical ideals of simple and harmonious forms. Creamware, a type of ceramic, was a particularly favoured material by the middling ranks and was associated with 'politeness'.
Global Connections, Europe, Italy
Ruins and excavations revealed the wonders of ancient Roman architecture to English visitors in the eighteenth century. They inspired the neoclassical designs of architects and designers like Robert Adam, who drew this sketch of Roman ruins in c.1756.
Global Connections, Europe, Greece
The architectural rules that underpinned classical design were filtered through Roman sources but originated in Ancient Greece. Greek influence became more prominent in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Ancient Authorities
The classical architectural orders outlined in ancient Roman treatises like Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were taken as an authority for design. Classical ideals of a balanced sense of proportion governed by reason, elegance and restraint and were closely related to social concerns for ‘politeness’ in eighteenth-century English society.
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