CIRCA 1600-20

Details

A RARE ENGLISH PEWTER HIGH-BELL CANDLESTICK
CIRCA 1600-20
With a knopped stem and dished mid wide drip-tray
8½in. (21.5cm.) high

Provenance

Peal collection.
Purchased from Robin Bellamy.

Literature

Museum of London 1989, 'Pewter, A celebration of the craft, No.45
Hornsby, Pewter of the Western World, No.160
Peal, British Pewter, p.90
Michaelis, British Pewter, p.71
Hornsby, Pewter, Copper and Brass, p.80

Exhibited

Reading Museum, No.34
Usher Art Gallery, Lincoln, No.15.

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Lot Essay

Eloy Koldeweij reproduces a portrait of Mary Harvey circa 1620 standing by a table with a similar candlestick, p.65 in The English Candlestick, Christies 2001. Cat No.32.
See Michaelis, Old Domestic Base-Metal Candlesticks, Figs 86-90 for a discussion on similar.

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