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Pair of candlesticks

Title

Year/Period

1950s or later

Region

China

Material

glass, marble, metal

Dimension

Object size: part 1 + part 4: H29.6 x Diameter 8 cm,
Object size: part 2 + part 3: H30 x Diameter 8 cm

Accession No.

2005-00050

Collection of

Asian Civilisations Museum

Credit Line

Gift of Rosalind Ong

Such glass candlesticks were usually used on ancestral altars in Chinese homes. A typical ancestral altar would have ancestor tablets which were believed to be a way through which the living may communicate with the deceased ancestors in the after world.