HISTORY:
Well, this piece takes me back quite a while! Pretty sure it was the 1970's and although I personally tended to focus on china-ceramics-porcelain of "English" origin, I was also a bit partial to a nice piece from Ireland! While not in the realm of the incredible Belleek wares from Ireland, this ceramic from the Carrigaline pottery works just had to come home with me ... a reminder of bygone days (pre "electric current" as my folks used to call it) It wasn't so long ago that there was a man who went around the streets to manually light the gas street lamps, the lamp lighter. Ok, that period does go back a long long way ... but it is just amazing how our lifestyles changed during the 20th century!
Not likely to be of any practical use these days but a nice piece of Irish decoration that is a little out of the ordinary.
I am told that the Carrigaline Pottery is no more, having ceased operations around the late 1970's
If Irish chinaware and porcelain "warms the cockles of your heart", you might also like to take a look HERE
CARRIGCRAFT - Night Candle Holder
Made in Cork, Ireland
Carrigaline Pottery Works
Circa1970's
Size: 142mm length x 103mm diameter wax catcher bowl
Central depression will fit a 21mm diameter candle (not supplied!)
Heavy Gold gilding has been applied to the outer rim of the bowl area and across the top of the loop handle
Simple in design, the hand decorated artwork comprises three groups of Shamrock 3 leaf clovers, the well known symbol of Ireland.
The base ceramic colouring is a Cream/White
BACKSTAMP
This closeup of the backstamp below is taken directly from this piece, not some random picture copied from online (I have seen some folks do this!)
COSMETIC CONDITION:
USED but for all intentions and purposes "as new"
I bought this back to New Zealand, then moved to Australia and it has been behind the glass doors of one china cabinet ever since! Never seen a drop of candle wax (we discovered these things called torches in times of power failures!)
NO cracks
NO stains, marks or other signs of use
NO chips or fleabites
NO crazing
NO wear showing to the artwork at all
NO wear to the Gold gilding
NO discolouration (topside, inside and underneath
Slán fóill dear Ireland!
