Lantern, candle

Description

Three-cornered lantern with a wooden frame and base and tin candle holder, carried by Lady Grizell Baillie when visiting her Covenanter father, Sir Patrick Hume, during his concealment in the vault beneath Polwarth Church in 1684

Museum reference

H.MGK 7

Object name

Lantern, candle

Date

17th century

Materials

Wood, Tin, Ivory, Leather

Physical description

Wooden frame and base, tin candle holder, ivory clasp, leather hinges

Associations

Polwarth Church
Previous owner: Lady Grizell Baillie
Owner's father: Hume, Patrick, 1st Earl of Marchmont, 1641 - 1724
Covenanters
Haddington collection (NMS)
Polwarth, Berwickshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

On display

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