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A tin candlestick on three ball feet, fitted with a looped handle and a thumb rest, this is a humble household object that shows Spratling's workshop applying its sense of form to an everyday material. It is recorded in Penny Morrill's William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Renaissance.
Tin was a material the workshop used for objects outside the silver line, and here the design is entirely practical: the three ball feet for stability, the loop and thumb rest for carrying a lit candle. The forms are reduced to their useful essentials.
A modest survival in a base metal, it documents the broader range of objects the workshop produced beyond its silver hollowware.
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