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Description: | Pewter candle sticks, urn and vases for a family altar.
Pewter candlestick cast with a tubular pricket rising from a baluster-shaped column with two squared cups above and below, mounted on a pedestal base with stylised cloud-shaped feet. Remains of a red candle inserted on the pricket. Part of an altar set of five items. Both the base and inside the upper squared cup are impressed with two marks: 1. 'Zhang hong fa yuan' (maker's mark), 'originating from Zhang hong fa'. 2. 'dian xi bao yong' (hallmark), 'made of tin alloy'. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | bamboo candlesticks altar vessels pewter Chinese Peoples wax lead alloy Chinese Family and Home | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-56303 | Go to resource |
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