Extremely rare earthenware figural candlestick, ca. 1885, the underside of the base inscribed Solomon Bell Strasburg and also stamped S. Bell, the draped woman retaining its original brown painted surface, 10 1/2" h. Similar examples are illustrated in Rice, The Shenandoah Pottery. plate IV, and Winterthur Beyond Necessity, Art in the Folk Tradition, fig. 8. Provenance: Titus Geesey; C.M. Heffner, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1942 for $45.00. Small flakes to base rim. Glaze exfoliation mostly around base. Head reattached. Old repair to neck.