Specific of the gloucerster candlestick's ekphrasis in the novel “The children's book” by A.S. Byatt

The article deals with the Gloucerster candlestick's ekphrasis in the novel «The Children's Book» by Antonia Byatt, a famous English writer of the 20th century. Pictorial ekphrasises of the candlestick are analysed in the text through their functions. Ekphrasises of different artefacts have been analysed by modern scholars, the author's works included, but no detailed analysis of the phenomen under study (the Gloucerster candlestick) has been an object of literary research yet, which shows novelty and actual importance of the analysed issue.