A SET OF FOUR MARTELE SILVER CANDLESTICKS

MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, CIRCA 1901

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A SET OF FOUR MARTELE SILVER CANDLESTICKS
MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, CIRCA 1901
Each baluster form on shaped circular domed base, the base, stem and campana-form socket chased with irises, the waxpan chased with clovers, the socket chased with leaves, each stem engraved MFL, each marked under base and on nozzles, two bases and two nozzles with pattern number 4737 in an oval for samples, the remainder with pattern number RUN
10 3/8 in. high; 76 oz. (4)

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Please note two candelsticks are code KUN, not RUN, and appear in the Gorham archives as the same pattern as 4737, produced in 1906.

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Lot Essay

According to the Gorham records, this pattern of candlestick was made in 1901, as a part of an extensive 30-piece dinner service which included a seven-light candelabrum (numbers 4715-4744). It is illustrated in Larry Pristo, Martele: Gorham's Art Nouveau Silver, 2002, p. 103. The other pair of candlesticks, code RUN, appear in archives with no costing information. (op. cit., pp. 221, 418). Another set of four candlesticks, dating to 1917 and commissioned for the extensive dinner service of Harry Ford Sinclair, sold in these Rooms, 16 June 1999, lot 6.

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