Candlestick with snuffer
Author: Unknown
Date: 19th century, 1st half
Material: White silver
Dimensions (cm): H 25,5 x W 5,3
Provenance: Guimarães, Colegiada de Nossa Senhora da Oliveira
Inventory No.: MAS O 97
This candlestick, with a handle and a snuffer, in the Baroque taste, is a 19th century revivalism. The candlestick has a cylindrical opening that rests on a circular plate decorated with acanthus leaves on the edge. The handle is decorated with foliage and the snuffer, a scissor with a box for the wicks, fits onto the handle and has no decoration.
The silver lamps, which worked on olive oil or wax, were indispensable to the nocturnal activity in a time when electric lighting still didn’t exist.