1949.114.8.1-2: Pair of Candlesticks
Lighting Devices
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1949.114.8.1-2
- People
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Patrick Murray, Scottish
- Title
- Pair of Candlesticks
- Classification
- Lighting Devices
- Work Type
- lighting device
- Date
- 1702-1703
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, Scotland, Edinburgh
- Period
- Queen Anne (1702-1714)
- Culture
- British, Scottish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/54034
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
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1949.114.8.1: 18.7 × 11.7 × 11.7 cm (7 3/8 × 4 5/8 × 4 5/8 in.)
1949.114.8.2: 18.7 × 11.7 × 11.7 cm (7 3/8 × 4 5/8 × 4 5/8 in.)
1232 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- hallmark: under bases, struck: castle, assay master's mark [James Penman], date letter
- maker's mark: under bases, struck: PM [in monogram] [Patrick Murray; Jackson, p. 545, line 1]
- inscription: under bases, engraved: 5
- inscription: under base, engraved: 21 o 3 d [scratch weight]
- inscription: under base, engraved: 20 = 5 [scratch weight]
- inscription: under bases, engraved: pr. 40 = 5
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Christie's (New York), London, Sold at auction, 1927;Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York; bequest to 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
- 1949.114.8.1-2
- 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, the central circular wells rising to octagonal knopped baluster stems and campana-shaped sockets.
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), pp. 91-92, cat. no. 54, repr. p. 91, details repr. p. 91.
Verification Level
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