- Titles Taperstick, or Chamber Candlestick, and Candle Extinguisher, or Douter (Descriptive)
- Artist Candlestick by, Matthew Boulton, British, born Birmingham 1728 - died 1809, Birmingham
- Medium silver
- Dimensions 6 × 6 9/16 × 6 5/8 in. (15.2 × 16.7 × 16.8 cm)
- Credit Line Bequest of Frances Oliver, 1972.250a-c
- Work Type candlestick with extinguisher
- Classification Furnishings and Equipment
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks On the underside the lion passant; sovereign's head; maker's mark MB; Birmingham anchor; and the date letter D [for 1827-28]
- Inscription Engraved on the interior of the well of the dish with the small crest of a crown
- Provenance Frances C. Oliver (1883-1972), Birmingham, Alabama; by bequest to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1972