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Candlestick
1715-1725
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Museum Object Number
2001.0020.014.001
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of Leo A. and Doris C. Hodroff
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Object Number
2001.0020.014.001
Object Name
Candlestick
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Date
1715-1725
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: White, rectangular paper label with "PR. CANDLESTICKS 5 3/8" HT/ CHINA EXP. FAMILLE VERTE/ HEXAGONAL KNOPPED/ FACETED STEMS- FLOWER/ HEADS- SHOWAS[?]/ KANGXI- 1670 1435" handwritten in black and red ink
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: Green and white, circular paper label with "<typed>Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection/ <handwritten>1435" in black and blue ink
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: White, rectangular paper label with "01.20.14.2" handwritten in pencil
Mark/Signature: No
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Techniques
- Molded
- Enameled
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
5.236 (H) x 3.622 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
13.3 (H) x 9.2 (Diam)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Howard, David Sanctuary. 1994 The Choice of the Private Trader: The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain Illustrated from the Hodroff Collection.
• Published: p. 219, fig. 255, c. 1720Book: Howard, David Sanctuary & Ayers, John. 1978 China for the West.
• Discussion of famille verte: pp. 113-121Book: Lange, Amanda E. 2005 Chinese Export Art at Historic Deerfield.
• Similarly ornamented candlestick of square sectioned form: pp. 151-52, no. 42, famille verte, c. 1720Book: Castelluccio, Stephanie. 2013 Collecting Chinese and Japanese Porcelain in Pre-Revolutionary Paris.
• Discussion of Chinese famille verte, five-color, and wucai wares: pp. 90-93