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Lot Essay
An old typed label under the bell-base reading 'This candlestick was dug-up in a flowerbed outside the ruins of Glastonbury Cathedral by our mother Edith Cole Pardon (Mrs Harry Petter) about the turn of the Century (1900)' Mrs Petter emigrated to Canada where she died in 1918, and the candlestick has remained in the same family ever since.
It can be compared with a similar example sold Christie's London in the David Little collection of 'Important early English pewter' 1st May 2007, lot 132, formerly in the Peal collection, and illustrated in various publications by Peal, Hornsby and Michaelis.
A similar candlestick is illustrated by Eloy Koldeweij, The English Candlestick, p.65. Cat No. 32. and similar in Michaelis, Old Domestic Base-meal candlesticks, figs 86-90.
It can be compared with a similar example sold Christie's London in the David Little collection of 'Important early English pewter' 1st May 2007, lot 132, formerly in the Peal collection, and illustrated in various publications by Peal, Hornsby and Michaelis.
A similar candlestick is illustrated by Eloy Koldeweij, The English Candlestick, p.65. Cat No. 32. and similar in Michaelis, Old Domestic Base-meal candlesticks, figs 86-90.