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| The Victoria & Albert Museum |
Made in Staffordshire, England between 1749 and 1753, this candleholder demonstrates the fashion of British decorative arts in middle-class households in the mid-Eighteenth Century.
Figure of a cow lying down, the object is created of soft-paste porcelain. Beside the cow, a tree-stump forms the candle-socket. The whole of the piece is adorned with an applied floral design.
This is the work of Longton Hall Porcelain Factory who aimed to make affordable decorative objects to rival those made by the up-market Chelsea Factory.
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