- Title : Candleholder
- Artist: Louis Dee Designer Louis Dee Manufacturer
- Accession: XX1991.127.1
- Country: Great Britain London
- Date: 1876, design date 1881, manufacture date
- Dimensions: Inches 8-1/2 4-1/2 diameter, Centimeters 21.6 11.4 diameter
- Collection: Object
- Category: Decorative Arts and Furniture
- Subject: Portraits , Humor/Satire , Caricature and Cartoons , Metal/Metal Design , Lighting/Lighting Design
- Credit Line: The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
- URL: XX1991.127.1-2.JPG
- Tags: Decorative Arts and Furniture
Description:
One of a pair of silver candlesticks; overall imagery forming shoulders, head and nightcap of man with three faces, one smiling, one yawning and one sleeping; removable nightcap extinguisher; three carpet slipper feet protruding from base; depicts satirical image of Louis Phillipe, King of France, 1830-48, based on a cartoon by Daumier.