1949.114.6.1-2: Pair of Candlesticks

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.114.6.1-2

People

Attributed to Jacob Margas, British (1706 - )

Title

Pair of Candlesticks

Classification

Lighting Devices

Work Type

lighting device

Date

1701-1702

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Period

Queen Anne (1702-1714)

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/54122

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

17.5 x 11.7 x 11.7 cm (6 7/8 x 4 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.)
unspecified: 922 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: under bases on on sockets, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter and maker's mark; lion's head erased on sockets

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Christie's, 1921, lot 89]. 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

1949.114.6.1-2

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 circular wells, rising to knopped baluster stems and campana-shaped sockets, all of conforming section; the based engraved in the well with a coat of arms within an oval scroll cartouche, the bases with scratch weights 15=2 and 15=6

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. 86-87, cat. no. 51, repr. p. 87, details repr. pp. 86-87.

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