Lonely at the Top: c. 1830s Graphite and Charcoal Drawing of Obelisk Monument candle holder is an example of Bucchero

is an example of Bucchero

And orange

It is signed--exuberantly

The hand-thrown and manipulated form is terrific too

but still holds them together fine

Lonely at the Top: c. 1830s Graphite and Charcoal Drawing of Obelisk Monument candle holder is an example of BuccheroThe momument portrayed here, I know from a little searching, is the Obelisk at Newtown Park in Dublin, erected in 1727 by Viscount Lord Allen as a monument mausoleum for his wife (she was ultimately buried elsewhere, and legend has it that Joshua Allen, the 2nd Viscount of Stillorgan, had his favourite horse buried beneath it instead!) In any event, this drawing fairly closely follows an engraving of it published by Fisher, Son & Co. London, in 1832,