DELFTWARE Lighting 
 
 
D380. CANDLESTICK 
Southwark, London 
Dated 1653 
 
 
H.: 9 3/4" (24.8 cm); 
Diam.: 7 3/4" (19.7 cm) 
 
BODY CLAY: Fine-grained buff. 
TIN GLAZE: Pale greenish white, 
slightly transparent and runny. Some 
 
open crazing and, on base, large patch 
of rough pits. Glazed inside columnar 
portion of base. Much of underside 
wiped clean. 
SHAPE: Thrown, with socket and 
saucer undulations and base fluting. 
Hollow base. 
DECORATION: Fluted by hand, paint- 
ed. Cartouche inscribed "1IT/1653 [1653]," 
with dot-cluster filler ornament. 
 
Published: Lipski and Archer, Doted Delft- 
ware, no, 1560: Grigsby, Doted Longridge 
Delftware and Slipware, pp. 880-881, pl. 9 
Ex coll.: T G. Burn, Rous Lench. 
 
 
his important candlestick and others of somewhat similar form, with large

drip pans and wide feet, base their designs on seventeenth-century metalwork.

One delft example has a flat socket flange, drip pan, and domed foot that
are 
trimmed in a lobe-and-dart pattern characteristic of metalwork examples.

Painted in blue on its foot are the Fishmongers' arms and the inscription

WW E /1648" (the earliest date on a delft stick). The initials have
been associat- 
 
ed with William Withers and Elizabeth Snelling of Saint Olave's parish, 
Southwark, where the Pickleherring factory was active.' Unlike the 1648 exam-

ple and the one shown here, the majority of candlesticks of this general
form 
are left in white, often ornamented with raised bosses or fluting (see nos.
D235, 
D236, D273, D274).2 Candlesticks of somewhat similar form have been exca-

vated in Southwark, as have later examples in Lambeth.' 
    Fluting also occasionally occurs on other primarily white delftware forms

of about this date. A nearly cylindrical posset pot in the Longridge collection

(no. D273) displays such relief ornament on the walls of the body but has
bosses 
forming the lid decoration. A few squat, globular posset pots also bear related

ornament.4 
 
 
1. Archer, V&A, no. G.3. 
2. Garner and Archer, l)elftware, pl. 29A; 
Manchester, Greg Collection, no. 46; 
Fisher, St. Louis Collection, p. 627, fig. 1; 
Sotheby's (L), Moor Wood sale, May 15, 
1979, lot 5. 
3. Archer, V&A, no. G.4. 
4. Sotheby's (L), Lipski sale (1), March 10, 
1981, lot 10, noting a coverless "somewhat 
similar posset pot ... Sold 30th January 
1979, lot 8"; February 25, 1986, lot 43. 
 
 
424 The Longridge Collection