Skip to main content
Candlestick
Candlestick
Candlestick
Museum of International Folk Art
DepartmentLatin America

Candlestick

NameCandlestick
CulturePoqomam
Datec. 1960
Place madeChinautla, Guatemala, Central America
MediumCeramic
Dimensions9 1/2 × 2 1/8 × 4 5/16 in. (24.2 × 5.4 × 11 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.17.807X
Object numberA.1979.17.807X
DescriptionHand-built, low fired ceramic with white slip, burnished. Bell shaped base and holder on back. Each angel holds one or two birds. // $ 30 ea.
Figure
c. 1960
Angel
c. 1960
CANDLESTICK
CA 1965, STAFF
Figure
Artist unrecorded
c. 1960
Sculpted candle with base
Sofia Ruiz Lorenzo
2009
Sculpted candle with base
Sofia Ruiz Lorenzo
2009
Candle holder
Artist unrecorded
c. 1970
CANDLESTICK
CA 1965, STAFF
Figure group, tower of people and animals
Herón Martínez Mendoza
CA 1958, STAFF
Flight into Egypt
Leoncio Tineo Ochoa
c. 1958