BY E. THOMASON & CO.

细节

A SET OF FOUR REGENCY ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS
By E. Thomason & Co.
Each in the form of a harlequin figure holding above his head a waved circular drip-pan with foliage centre and supporting a turned urn-shaped and foliage-clasped nozzle with foliate and shellwork removable drip-pan, on a scallop and C-scroll rockwork and foliate circular spreading base, the ribbon on the figure's hat indistinctly engraved 'E. THOMASON & CO. MAY 1812', two engraved on the base 'PUBLISHED BY E. THOMASON & CO. MAY 1812', one dish pan reattached, three with later screw fitting twixt drip-pan and hands, one rethreaded
15 in. (38 cm.) high (4)

拍品专文

The silver model for these harlequin ormolu candlesticks is illustrated in V. Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver, 1600-1940, London 1986, p. 211, fig. 920, by the specialist London candlestick maker John Cafe (d.1757). A similar George II silver harlequin taper-stick was sold from the Knole Estate, in these Rooms, 20 May 1987, lot 141 and a further example, by John Cafe was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 27 April 1983, lot 48.
E. Thomason & Co. are listed in The Post-Office London Directory, as 'silversmiths and platers' in 1824 and as 'Thomason E. Plate Company's Warehouse, 12 Bell's Building, Salisbury Sq. Fleet St.' in 1835. This may be the same Edward Thomason (d.1849) who was a Birmingham inventor and manufacturer, known for his jewellery, medals, gilt-buttons, tokens in gold, silver and bronze.