candle-holder
- Museum number
- Am1978,15.1031
- Description
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Candle-holder; made of burnished pottery; barrel-shaped body with four legs; two heads (one with curled horns) at one end of body, one head at other end; loop of pottery with tube at top for holding candle arched over body; loop decorated with mould-made flowers, painted with orange stripes, attached on wire; pottery man hangs on wire underneath tube; spirals of pottery on either end of arch; "HERÓN M. M." written in black on stomach; body painted with orange slip.
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
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Height: 45 centimetres
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Width: 29.50 centimetres
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Depth: 36 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Espejel, Carlos. Cerámica Popular Mexicana. Barcelona: Editoria Blume, 1975 pp. 68-77, Thompson, Amanda. Cerámica: Mexican Pottery of the 20th Century. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001 pp. 162-165; Sayer, Chloë. Arts and Crafts of Mexico. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990 p. 73 for photo of this object.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1977-1978, London, Horniman Museum
- Acquisition date
- 1978
- Acquisition notes
- Objects collected during the 1970s by Chloë Sayer and Marcos Ortiz. They were exhibited in 1977-1978 at the Horniman Museum, and later acquired by the British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1978,15.1031