Candle Holder
Joseph Lownes
1790–1810 · Silver, steel · The American Wing
The neoclassical candleholder with a central candle socket with bobeche, a conical douter for extinguishing the flame, and a scissor-shaped snuffer for trimming the wick sits on an elliptical boat-shaped stand. The monogram ESB engraved on the douter, bobeche, and tray possibly belong to the Byrd family.
- Artist
- Joseph Lownes
- Date
- 1790–1810
- Medium
- Silver, steel
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
