Pair of Candlesticks

Artists

Description

On stepped square bases with incurved corners, the centers with circular molding, rising to knopped baluster stems and campana-shaped sockets all of conforming section, the bases engraved within the circular moulding with a crest of a stake entwined by a vine within an oval motto: Qui capit ille facit flanked by two Bacchic supporters with another motto: Sine cercere et Baccho friget Venus below;numbered under the bases I and III and with scratch weights 29=8 and I26=19 respectively; the sockets fitted, probably in the twentieth century, with interior sleeves

Dimensions

22.8 x 14 x 14 cm (9 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.) unspecified: 1718 g

Provenance

Earl Howe (?), sold [through Christie's, London, 1933, lot 106]. Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.