Silver-Plate Candlestick

Object/Artifact

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Drexel Founding Collection

Name/Title

Silver-Plate Candlestick

Entry/Object ID

517

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Richard Mansfield Colection

Notes

Date: 1908 Means of Accession: museum purchase

Made/Created

Artist

Unidentified

Place

Country

England, United Kingdom

Continent

Europe

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

Height: 9 1/4 in

Height

9-1/4 in

Material

Silverplate

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Exhibition Label

Label

The Rococo Revival was one of the first styles to embrace the new technologies introduced by the Industrial Revolution. This silver-plated candlestick is an example of the new technique of electroplating developed by Luigi Brugnatelli around 1801.