Christopher Webber Fenton
Pair of Candlesticks

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Pair of Candlesticks
Datec. 1852–1858
Made inBennington, Vermont, United States
MediumLead-glazed earthenware (flint enamel ware)
DimensionsEach: 9 3/4 × 4 3/4 in. diameter (24.8 × 12.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.57.14.1,.2
Non exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Related examples: Barret 1958, p. 135, pl. 198.

 

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.




ProvenanceDr. Pleasant Hunter, Newark, New Jersey; [George S. McKearin, Hoosick Falls, New York]; [Whimsy Antiques, Arlington, Vermont]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1957; given to MFAH, by 1966.
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