MYKONOS, GREECE – Candle Holder

Mykonos - Greece - candle holder (1)PLACE REPRESENTED: Mykonos , Greece

ITEM: Candle Holder

NOTES: A really nice tea tree candle holder with coloured and painted glass. Quite evocative for a recent travel trinket. Mykonos is a Greek island in the Aegean and has, the typically, white houses and the famous Mykonos windmills as depicted on the glass. Mykonos’ nickname is “The island of the winds” which explains the windmills, and possibly why the candle needs to be encased in a lantern!

Much more subtle than the Australian comedy “The Kings of Mykonos” (2010).

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s

MADE FROM: steel , glass

MADE IN:  unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 20.5cm high x 7.5cm wide at base

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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – Candle

Jerusalem - Candle (1)PLACE REPRESENTED:   Israel

ITEM: Candle

NOTES: I doubt this blog will create an international incident but it would be good if you could enter Jerusalem in as a “state” unto itself even though it is the capital of Israel,  and, err, Palestine. It depends on who you ask but some will say that Israel is the owner of Jerusalem, others will say Palestine while some will say that one country owns a part and the other owns the rest. Before 1948 it was all Palestine. But, Palestine was never a country. The historical Jerusalem had been part of the region of Palestine until 1967 when Israel annexed it. Though, historically the Jewish people have lived their thousands of years before the Arabs of Palestine.  Yes, a difficult one. But it is Israel now, so …

This quite a nifty little candle in a ceramic holder. It may have some sort of a religions significance I do not know but the representation of Jerusalem around the base is nicely detailed.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN:  unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 5cm diameter, at it’s widest x 6cm high

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