Lot 9
9
A FINE ENGLISH PEWTER OCTAGONAL BASE CANDLESTICK
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A FINE ENGLISH PEWTER OCTAGONAL BASE CANDLESTICK

CIRCA 1680

Details
A FINE ENGLISH PEWTER OCTAGONAL BASE CANDLESTICK
CIRCA 1680
With a cast band of raised decoration in a rose and vine pattern, a reeded ball knop to stem, stamped indistinct initials 'TM?' on sconce and ownership triad of 'R.K.M.' under foot, traces of gadrooning to single reeded rims
7½in. (19cm.) high
Provenance
Cooper collection.
Bradshaw collection.
Literature
Hornsby, Pewter of the Western World, Fig. 1070
Massé, The Pewter collector, pl. 15
Mundey, Pewter snippets, p.18
J of P. Soc. V.6, No.2, fig 4; V.4, No.2, cover
Gadd, Pewter candlesticks, PRB12
Exhibited
Usher Gallery, Lincoln, 1962, No.4
Reading Museum, 1969, No. 94.
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Lot Essay

Found in 1899 at St.John's Street, Nottingham during excavations for a new railway station. It was sold Sotheby's Billingshurst, Bradshaw collection 18th March 1997 lot 394, and discussed by Sutherland Graeme in the Connoisseur, April 1956.
For similar in pewter see Eloi Koldeweij, The English Candlestick, 2001, Nos. 35 & 36.

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