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Miniature Vigil Light Candelabra, Fairy Castle

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Miniature Vigil Light Candelabra, Fairy Castle

Category

Art, Architecture, and Design

Classification

CHENHALL - Communication Objects - Ceremonial Objects - Religious Objects - Candlestick, Religious
CHENHALL - Communication Objects - Arts - Visual Arts - Sculpture - Miniature

Object Origin
Date Created:

1928-1935

Physical Characteristics

Object Description: Miniature vigil light candelabra of gold with gemstones. Has been electrified. Tall central spine has six levels of decoration with gemstones in clear, blue and red, in various combinations culminating in a cross as the second to top and large star at the top. Candelabra arms on each side are pointed downwards from center, each holds six (6) candles with gemstone decorations below.

Measurements: Object:
    Height: 5 in, Diameter: 1.125 in

Credit

Gift of Colleen Moore, 49.129.197

Display Status

On Exhibit

Miniature Vigil Light Candelabra, Fairy Castle

About: Miniature Vigil Light Candelabra, Fairy Castle

About: Miniature Vigil Light Candelabra, Fairy Castle

Inside the Chapel of the Fairy Castle is this vigil light covered in gold, precious stones, and twelve electric candles. Encased in the sunburst at the top of the vigil light is a large diamond from Colleen Moore’s mother’s engagement ring. Moore’s mother left the diamond to Colleen with directions to use the diamond in the Fairy Castle. The Chapel of the Fairy Castle is decorated throughout with inlaid ivory embellished with symbolic events of the Old Testament, designed by Bayard de Volo. In the center of the design are the Ten Commandments hewn into the stone tablets. The gold and ivory Chapel organ was carved in Italy and has over a hundred keys, each barely a sixteenth of an inch wide, and it even plays music through an electrical system via remote control. Finally, the ceiling is decorated from the illuminations of the Book of Kells, a medieval illuminated manuscript preserved in Dublin, Ireland.

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