POSSIBLY LATE 17TH CENTURY

Details

A Pair of English Brass Candlesticks
Possibly late 17th century
With repoussé stop fluted tapering shafts, above gadrooned octagonal bases intersected by conforming knops
18½in. (47cm) high (2)

Provenance

Archibald Stirling of Keir, sold Christie's, May 22-24 1995

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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: Christopher Bangs, The Lear Collection, A Study of Copper-Alloy Socket Candlesticks A.D. 200-1700. Bethlehem 1995. Number 136.
Rupert Gentle and Rachel Field, Domestic Metalwork 1640-1820. Antique Collector's Club, Woodbridge 1994. Page 129, no.27.
Peter, Nancy and Herbert Schiffer, The Brass Book, American, English and European Fifteenth Century Through 1850. Schiffer, Pennsylvania 1978. Page 187, fig.A.

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