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English: Incomplete cast lead alloy candle holder, with part of the socket and rim missing. The candle holder is circular in plan and S-shaped in profile, with an everted rim, a conical socket within an expanded waist that then tapers towards the pedestal base. The rim is flat with a scalloped edge that terminates in points every 12 mm. Below the rim are draped mouldings above a border of pellets. The exterior of the candle holder has been decorated with a foliate design of trefoil scrolls emanating from wide acanthus leaves within raised square borders. Below this section, at the base of the holder are a series of moulded concentric rounded rays forming a fluted design, similar to vaulted ceilings. The pedestal has a central concentric raised ring around its circumference and the base of the pedestal is broken and uneven, which would have originally attached to the rest of the candlestick.

The candle holder measures 52 mm in height, the diameter of the rim is 34 mm, the diameter of the waist is 30 mm and the diameter of the pedestal base is 20 mm. The rim is 5 mm thick and the body is 2 mm thick. It weighs 91.02 grams.

Similar lead alloy candle holders have been recorded on the database in records YORYM-215DD0 and WMID-7F30A2, which have been dated from the mid 17th century through to the mid 19th century. The style of the decoration is certainly typical of the 18th century, but the profile of the holder is more typical of pewter examples from the 19th century.

North (1999) illustrates a pair of undecorated pewter candlesticks with a similar holder with a ribbed pedestal base but a simpler profile on page 131, No.199, which is dated from the 18th century.