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Flower jar with candle holder, SM X709 ©Sir John Soane's Museum. Photo: Lewis Bush.
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A cachepot or "flower jar", with cover and candle socket

Earthenware, with fine enamel glaze, gilt

Museum number: X709

On display: South Drawing Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house. For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit

Curatorial note

This is one of a pair of cachepots that, with a matching vase (X710), form a garniture on the South Drawing Room mantlepiece. The set is brown glazed Staffordshire, decorated in gold.

Associated items

X711, pair
X710, set


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