Candle Stand
A pale, glazed stoneware candle stand with a tall socket at the top over a flared dish. A snake-like form coils around the slender column, and leaf-like flanges spring from its sides above a lobed, petal-decorated base. The modeled and applied forms are crisp against the smooth, cream-colored surface.
Look closer: Small leaf-like flanges sprout from the column just below the dish, partly hidden by the coiling form.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 600s
- Medium
- white stoneware with modeled and applied decoration
- Source
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Size
- 3020 × 3400 px
Public domain · The Cleveland Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 699).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund