Chamberstick
Chamberstick
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- Description
- Black-japanned chamberstick with large loop handle and cylindrical candle cup or socket mounted at center of a deep circular bowl with wire-rolled rim and foot ring. Painted decoration inside bowl includes a wide yellow or white band above a thin yellow line that features a repeating pattern of three red cherries on a single stem attached to a seven-lobed green leaf; a yellow band overpainted with an undulating or wavy black line borders the low-domed well. No marks. One of a pair, 1990.0503.01-.02.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- chamberstick
- Other Terms
- Chamberstick; Lighting Device
- date made
- ca 1930
- date purchased
- ca 1930
- place made
- United States: Maryland
- place purchased
- United States: Maryland, Middletown
- place used
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- Physical Description
- tinned sheet iron (overall material)
- iron wire (rim material)
- paint (overall decoration material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 in x 7 in x 5 5/8 in; 7.62 cm x 17.78 cm x 14.2875 cm
- ID Number
- 1990.0503.02
- catalog number
- 1990.0503.02
- accession number
- 1990.0503
- Credit Line
- Mrs. John H. Murray (Anne W. Murray)
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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