An unusual 19th century painted wood and wrought iron standing rushlight and candleholder
An unusual 19th century painted wood and wrought iron standing rushlight and candleholder
Comprising a pole with flared bottom and metal ferrule to its top, into which is set the wrought iron rushnip with parrot beak jaws and large rivet, the arm terminating in an open rolled candle socket, all adjusting on a four-stop trammel-type lower stem by means of looped and twisted rods of iron, the trammel set into an irregular rectangular base, traces of brown paint throughout, 104cm high (maximum)
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An unusual 19th century painted wood and wrought iron standing rushlight and candleholder
Comprising a pole with flared bottom and metal ferrule to its top, into which is set the wrought iron rushnip with parrot beak jaws and large rivet, the arm terminating in an open rolled candle socket, all adjusting on a four-stop trammel-type lower stem by means of looped and twisted rods of iron, the trammel set into an irregular rectangular base, traces of brown paint throughout, 104cm high (maximum)