Candlestick, vase, ornament? However you like it, I like this very much. Art Nouveau-esq in colour and form (albeit a little on the chunky side) it suits our little Arts and Crafts era house down to the ground, and has come in handy for the candlelit dinners we have daily throughout winter.
Regardless of it's beauty and utility though, I can't go past anything with a makers mark I don't know. I was especially curious as this one has such a "HELLO NOTICE ME" makers mark, like an (American as it turns out!) celebrity desperate to be identified. It's rather scribbled nature is quite at odds with the grace of the slip-cast form, or perhaps I'm too used to kiwi ceramics with their tiny, tidy impressed potters stamps?
Ok, so a doddle to identify. Van Briggle pottery, Colorado Springs. But hard to date, somewhere between 1940 and the present day; the pottery continues to churn out reproductions of its artist founders original Arts and Crafts era works.
Being of an over-ordered disposition (I find it hard to think of candlestick in anything but pairs) I'm contemplating getting it a matchy mate . Happily this shouldn't be too difficult as they appear to be two-a-penny on Ebay!
Hope your as delighted with your op-shop finds this week. Do link up if you blogged anything secondhand related, we'd all love to come over and take a peek x
