Pair of Candlesticks

Artists

Description

Cast, on stepped square bases with canted corners and central circular well, rising to knopped baluster octagonal stems and waisted sockets, the wells engraved, probably in the nineteenth century, with a crest of a lion’s head.

Dimensions

1949.114.7.1: 18 × 11.7 × 11.7 cm (7 1/16 × 4 5/8 × 4 5/8 in.) 1949.114.7.2: 18.1 × 11.7 × 11.7 cm (7 1/8 × 4 5/8 × 4 5/8 in.) 1020 g

Provenance

Eben F. Comyns, London?. Dr. and Mrs. Trechman, London, sold [Trechman sale, Christie's, 1933, lot no. 68]; to Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.