1949.114.7.1-2: Pair of Candlesticks
Lighting Devices
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1949.114.7.1-2
- People
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? Edward Vincent, British, English
- Title
- Pair of Candlesticks
- Classification
- Lighting Devices
- Work Type
- lighting device
- Date
- 1705-1706
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Period
- Queen Anne (1702-1714)
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/54033
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
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1949.114.7.1: 18 × 11.7 × 11.7 cm (7 1/16 × 4 5/8 × 4 5/8 in.)
1949.114.7.2: 18.1 × 11.7 × 11.7 cm (7 1/8 × 4 5/8 × 4 5/8 in.)
1020 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- hallmark: on bases, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter
- hallmark: sockets, struck: lion's head erased
- maker's mark: bases, struck: VI [fleur-de-lys below and mullet and crown above] [probably for Edward Vincent; Grimwade, no. 3852]
- inscription: bases, engraved: E / I I
- coat of arms: wells, engraved: crest of a lion's head [probably 19th century]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Eben F. Comyns, London?. Dr. and Mrs. Trechman, London, sold [Trechman sale, Christie's, 1933, lot no. 68]; to Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Archibald A. Hutchinson, Esq.
- Accession Year
- 1949
- Object Number
- 1949.114.7.1-2
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Cast, on stepped square bases with canted corners and central circular well, rising to knopped baluster octagonal stems and waisted sockets, the wells engraved, probably in the nineteenth century, with a crest of a lion’s head.
Publication History
- Christopher Hartop, British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge, Mass. and New Haven, 2007), p. 94, cat. no. 58, repr. p. 94, details repr. p. 94.
Verification Level
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