{"id":474,"date":"2010-03-17T10:25:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2018-02-01T11:15:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T16:15:57","slug":"anglo-indian-brass-candlestick-c-1875","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Brass candlestick with nutty base, c.1875"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A surprising blend of cultures merge when this English cast brass candlestick was attached to a carved Brazil nut pod, after the brass base broke off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1870_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_1870_3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1870_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Candle holder with replacement base stands 6.75 inches tall and the repair was\u00a0most likely done in South America in the early 1900s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1871_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4420\" title=\"IMG_1871_3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1871_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1871_3.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1871_3-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1871_3-300x299.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This typical brass candle holder shows what the original base might have looked like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/377lot312_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"377lot312_2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/377lot312_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"465\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denhams.com\">Denhams<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=12879\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12879\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12879\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/brazil-nut_open.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/brazil-nut_open.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/brazil-nut_open-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/brazil-nut_open-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spicenecklace.com\">The Spice Necklace<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surprising blend of cultures merge when this English cast brass candlestick was attached to a carved Brazil nut pod, after the brass base broke off. Candle holder with replacement base stands 6.75 inches tall and the repair was\u00a0most likely done in South America in the early 1900s. This typical brass candle holder shows what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[72,19,12],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-candle-holder","tag-brass","tag-english","tag-wood-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12881,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/12881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}