{"product_id":"skull-candle-holder-with-pedestal-base-for-tealights-and-halloween-decor","title":"Skull Candle Holder for Tealights and Larger Candles, Halloween Decor","description":"\u003cp\u003eA human skull with the crown cut away and hollowed into a candle well, standing on a turned pedestal like an old candlestick. Cast resin, 5.9 inches tall, made to look like something that has been in the house for years rather than something bought in October.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo printing. No thin plastic. Nothing that goes soft by November.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMost of Halloween is made to be thrown away\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThink about what the season is usually made of. Printed card, vacuum-formed plastic with a seam down the back, a foam pumpkin, and a bag of cobwebs that comes out already gray. It photographs well for a week. Then it goes in a box, and next October half of it comes out bent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is cast resin with the detail molded into it rather than printed onto it, so the eye sockets are real hollows and the teeth are separate teeth with the shadow between them. It goes back in the box in November and comes out the same the following year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe candle sits down inside the head\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe top of the cranium is cut off flat and the inside is hollowed into a round well 1.7 inches across. A tealight drops straight in and sits low, so what you see above the rim is the flame rather than the tin it came in. It is not tealights only. Any candle with a base up to 1.7 inches sits in the same well, so a votive or a short pillar stands taller out of the top of the head and does the same job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLit, the light comes from inside the skull instead of from somewhere beside it. It sits in the top of the head and washes down over the brow, which is what puts the shadow into the sockets and the grooves between the teeth. The candle is not included, with any of the three options.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe pedestal is what stops it reading as a toy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBelow the tooth row the stem is a proper turned baluster: a collar, a pear-shaped swell, three stacked rings and a domed foot. That is the profile of an ordinary candlestick, and it is the reason this sits on a mantel next to the real ones instead of on a side table with the plastic spiders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bone finish has a brown wash rubbed into every recess. The sockets, the tooth grooves, the fine crack lines across the temples, the grooves between the rings on the stem. Raised surfaces stay pale and the hollows go dark, which is the whole trick of it. The shape is what you see from across the room and the finish is what you see up close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBone, Black, or one of each\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBone is the one that reads as a skull from the doorway, and it works best against something dark behind it, so a charcoal wall or a walnut shelf suits it. Black is the quieter of the two. It loses its detail at a distance and turns into a silhouette, which is why it sits happily in a room that is not decorated for anything and can stay out all year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Set of Two is one of each. A pair, one at either end of a table or at both ends of a mantel, does more than a single one placed anywhere in the room. And when the season is over, this is the piece from the box that never needs replacing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDimensions: 5.9 in high, 2.6 in across the front, 3 in front to back (15 x 6.5 x 7.5 cm)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCandle well: 1.7 in \/ 4.3 cm across, round, set into the top of the cranium\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaterial: Resin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinish: Matte. Bone carries a brown antique wash in the recesses; Black is a uniform matte black\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColors: Bone, Black, or one of each\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCandle: Not included. Takes a tealight, or any candle with a base up to 1.7 in \/ 4.3 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWill not take: A taper or a dinner candle, which needs a narrow socket rather than an open well\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBase: Flat black underside across the foot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRooms: Mantel, dining table, console, shelf, entryway\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePackage Includes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1x Skull Candle Holder, on the Bone and the Black options\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2x Skull Candle Holder, one Bone and one Black, on the Set of Two option\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo candle is included with any option\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Ridgewell Living","offers":[{"title":"Bone","offer_id":52354611872040,"sku":null,"price":57.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black","offer_id":52354611904808,"sku":null,"price":57.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Set of Two","offer_id":52354611937576,"sku":null,"price":86.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/9430\/5064\/files\/0401-04-dinner-table-evening.png?v=1788954275","url":"https:\/\/ridgewellliving.com\/en-au\/products\/skull-candle-holder-with-pedestal-base-for-tealights-and-halloween-decor","provider":"Ridgewell Living","version":"1.0","type":"link"}