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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.175.1-2
People
Maker's mark HW in escutcheon-shaped punch, with two pellets above and escallop below, British, English (active late 1660s)
Title
Pair of Candlesticks
Classification
Lighting Devices
Work Type
lighting device
Date
c. 1665 -1670
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period
Charles II (1660-1685)
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/142298

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
22.9 × 16.5 × 16.5 cm (9 × 6 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: under bases and on nozzles, struck: Maker's mark HW in escutcheon-shaped punch with two pellets above and escallop below

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, London; to his trustees, 1852, sold [through Christie's, London, November 4, 1919, lot 91]. Private Collector, sold [through Puttick and Simpson, London, March 2, 1922, lot 124 (probably unsold). Private Collector, sold [through Christie's, London, December 11, 1922, lot 37; to Willson, London. George E. P. How, Endinburgh. A.F. Graham-Watson, before 1929 after 1958. [Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1990]. [Koopman Rare Art Ltd., London], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2001.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The David Berg Bequest Fund and the Paul Clarke Stauffer Fund
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.175.1-2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Two nearly identical silver candlesticks, each carrying the (unidentified) maker’s mark HW in an escutcheon-shaped punch with two pellets above and escallop below on both sticks and nozzles.

Publication History

  • Illustrated Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of English Decorative Art at Lansdowne House, exh. cat. (London, 1929), no. 303, p. 51
  • Seven Centuries of English Domestic Silver, exh. cat., Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto, Ontario, 1958), D. 17, p. 26
  • "Silver", Octagon, Spink & Son Ltd. (London, Spring 1990), pp. 14-19, p. 18

Exhibition History

  • Loan exhibition of English decorative art, Lansdowne House, London, 02/17/1929 - 02/28/1929
  • Seven Centuries of English Domestic Silver, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 01/14/1958 - 03/10/1958
  • 32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 09/24/2019

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

Verification Level

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