Candlestick. Dimensions: H. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm); Diam. 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm). Date: 1670-1700.
A typical household in seventeenth-century New England owned several metal or ceramic candlesticks. Wax candles were an expensive rarity--most colonists made their own candles from tallow (animal fat).