Objects

The double candlestick from the collection of the Lublin Open Air Village Museum was made of colourful glazed clay. It consists of two tubes situated on a base in the form of two antithetically aligned creatures that resemble fish halves. The creatures' heads are turned away from each other, but they are joined by their hind parts and share a common dorsal fin. A colourful glaze covers the bodies of both – one has blue fish scales, the other circles with a marked centre in green, with dark blue touches. The heads and fins are glazed brown; the tubes are brownish-beige-green and adorned with zig-zag patterns. The candlestick is doubly signed with the same circular imprint: all around the inscription "A. AZAREWICZ – WILNO", in the centre is a seven-pointed star.

The candlestick was made in the well-known factory of Aleksandr Azarevich (? –1943), which the owner ran with his sons in the Vilnius suburb known as Little Jerusalem on Vilnius' Wiłkomierska Street. It operated during the interwar period, with its heyday in the 1930s, and the candlestick on display was probably made during this period.

The item was purchased for the Museum in 2007 from a collector from Warsaw who had purchased it from the "Desa" State Enterprise in Warsaw.