Candle holder by Art Smith with white taper candle

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A silver metal candle holder (a) designed and created by Art Smith, with a white candle (b). The candle holder’s body is made of thin silver alloy circles in various sizes soldered together to form a spherical shape. A single circle is flat at the bottom as the base. At the top, the center has been coiled into a cylindrical shape to hold the candle. Next to it is the finger handle, made of three concentric circles soldered perpendicular to the rest of the sphere. The candle is made of translucent wax with a blackened candlewick. Melted wax has dripped down one side of the candle and wax has accumulated near the finger handle of the candle holder.

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