Urn-shaped wood candlestick cup and stem screws onto shallow bowl base. Incised line around outside lip. Outside bottom is flat, slightly concave. On the base is a circular image of a man and woman on a donkey comprised of varied colors of inlaid wood. Background of the image is dark brown.
Scissors-like shape with pointed end (one) and hollow box with flattened 'blade' for cutting and extinguishing candle wick about one third up from pointed end. At finger holes and near end three knobs for hanging (?) attached at back. Some residue from c
Oil lamp. Base and reservoir are of glass. Base is molded; oil reservoir blown glass. Base square with rounded protruding corners. Lower base has graduated circular steps. Reservoir has bulbous upper body tapering down to three rings above base -- in the shape of an incandescent light bulb. Neck and
A brass fitting on the top in to which alcohol is poured is threaded so that a piece can screwed on. two tubes about 1.25 in long extend from top in a V-shape. Two 1in covers fit over the tubes. Pieces of a chain remain attached to the top of lamp. the two covers were attached by this chain.
Rounded square base with raised, flaring sides, rounded lip. Open finger loop handle in which cone snuffer rests. Round tubular candle holder at center on raised area. Has bands of line decoration and knob for raising candle. Also attached, small tab wit
Oil lamp with marble base, and brass and glass stem. Stem is 3.5in metal vase-shaped with floral design, clear glass container for oil. Body of lamp is hexagonal with six decorative vertical ovals widening to a larger hexagon. Body has a rounded glass top capped with a brass band. A flat brass piece with two opeings can be screwed into the brass band . One hole supports a 1.5in tube containing a woven cord cotton wick. Top has a circular brass piece that holds the wick. One hole where a wick is missing.
Straight pair of brass candlesticks with a spring. Christian Cornelius, a Dutch immigrant silversmith, founded the Cornelius lighting business in 1827, which became Cornelius, Baker, and Company in 1835. ... The firm began by making brass lighting fixtures but later also made zinc fixtures and sculptures. The business was succeeded by Cornelius and Sons and Baker, Arnold and Company in 1869.
Brass candlesticks have flat, octagonal shaped bases. A cone shaped turning rises to the shaft, which is in the form of a series of brass turnings, with several cone shapes in the middle. The base of the candle cups have three ring turnings, a slight flare shape terminating with cock beading. These candlesticks were mass-produced and cast in two parts; stem with socket and the base. They are fitted with internal pushrod ejectors to facilitate the removal of candle stubs.
Round, wide base with green felt on bottom. Acanthus leaf/shield molded design around top of base, bottom and top of neck, and around lip. Top is urn-shaped.
Provenance
Gettysburg Chapter of D.A.R. Ownership is unknown beyond the donor.
Oval, raised base. Iron bottom. Webbed foot-like design on top of base up to neck which is tapered. Fluted column with urn-shaped top section. Also fluted with oval lip and mouth. Top oval, molded lip is removable, fits into urn-shaped top section.
Oval, raised base. Iron bottom. Webbed foot-like design on top of base up to neck which is tapered. Fluted column with urn-shaped top section. Also fluted with oval lip and mouth. Top oval, molded lip is removable, fits into urn-shaped top section. Base
One of two porcelain candlesticks that are part of a five-piece dresser set. Base edges are flared with a white band decorated with gilt foliate design. The remainder of the flared base is pink surmounted by two rings at the start of the pink candlestick body. Just below the top of the candlestick is a second white band with that same gilt decor. Candle cup and drip edge is white porcelian with gilt edge.
Round, bowl-like base, rounded lip with curved, open, finger-handle ending in hole in which cone-shaped snuffer fits. Central candle holder, tall with 3 bands of 3 lines around. A vertical cut slot is on one side of the stem that has a curled lever to push the candle up in the stem as it is consumed by the flame.
Set of dark wooden candlesticks. "These candlesticks Mr. William Mellor who was then superintendent of the Thaddeus Stevens Industrial School Lanc. Pa. - Presented to Judge Charles I. Landis March 4, 1921 ["I give both to the Lancaster Historical Society J(?) Landis"] The Mahoganey is from handrail of stairs in home of The Honorable Thaddeus Stevens ["4th"] South Queen St.
Framed rectangular needlework, top crest slightly scalloped with hand grip. Inner frame edge scalloped. Needlework picture: Parrot in red, gold, blues, cream, small silver bead for eye, sitting among flowers including red, white, pink, roses, blue mornin
Provenance
Alexander Speer (James Buchanan's maternal first cousin)
Black cast-iron firebacks. Two sides curved out. Six repeated panels of foliate-like design. Two shorter front side panels also have small wreath molded above.
Oblong shaped walnut veneered container with a back-hinged lid, beveled shape raised central flat area carved with egg-bead molding. Brass 8-point star bail handles are on each end; one handle missing. Brass round keyhole escutcheon is centered on the top front façade of the box with egg & bead molding around the base surmounting four flat-bun shaped feet. Interior features two boxes with back hinged lids as storage compartments for tea leaves. In the center is a circular aperture lined with felt holding a star cut glass mixing bowl to blend tea leaves.
Open scroll work on rectangular music stand; elaborate lyre-shaped pedal support with two pedals. Three massive legs with ten-faceted tapered legs. Sides of keyboard area scrolled with foliate carving. Around bottom is rope-like molding.
Ames, Kenneth L [ed], 'Victorian Furniture: Essays from a Victorian Society Autumn Symposium', Victorian Society in America, 1982.
Height (in)
37.437
Length (in)
98.5
Width (in)
57
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2022-11-17
Condition Notes
adjusted' piano 5/16/1949
Last cleaning & tuning September 2006
Several strings are broken and the sound board no longer holds its tuning.
Object ID
W.1936.001.004
Notes
Jonas Chickering (1798-1853), whose firm made the piano, began his career as a cabinetmaker in Ipswich, New Hampshire. In 1818 at the age of twenty, he went to Boston and apprenticed himself in one of the town's cabinet shops.
American Rococo Revival Walnut Sofa. The serpentine back centered by a rose and shell scrolled carved crest, the back joined to closed arms, with a serpentine apron and raised on cabriole legs terminating in casters, silk velvet upholstery.
