Pair of Candlesticks

Artists

Description

Two nearly identical silver candlesticks, each carrying the (unidentified) maker’s mark HW in an escutcheon-shaped punch with two pellets above and escallop below on both sticks and nozzles.

Dimensions

22.9 × 16.5 × 16.5 cm (9 × 6 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, London; to his trustees, 1852, sold [through Christie's, London, November 4, 1919, lot 91]. Private Collector, sold [through Puttick and Simpson, London, March 2, 1922, lot 124 (probably unsold). Private Collector, sold [through Christie's, London, December 11, 1922, lot 37; to Willson, London. George E. P. How, Endinburgh. A.F. Graham-Watson, before 1929 after 1958. [Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1990]. [Koopman Rare Art Ltd., London], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2001.