Candle Holder

Joseph Lownes

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The neoclassical candleholder with a central candle socket with bobeche, a conical douter for extinguishing the flame, and a scissor-shaped snuffer for trimming the wick sits on an elliptical boat-shaped stand. The monogram ESB engraved on the douter, bobeche, and tray possibly belong to the Byrd family.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art