Harvard Art Museums > 1949.114.9.1-2: Pair of Candlesticks Lighting Devices Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Pair of Candlesticks (Paul De Lamerie) , 1949.114.9.1-2,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 04, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/54124. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1949.114.9.1-2 People Paul De Lamerie, British (Bois-le-Duc 1688 - 1751 London) Title Pair of Candlesticks Classification Lighting Devices Work Type lighting device Date 1734-1735 Places Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London Period George II (1727-1760) Culture British Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/54124 Physical Descriptions Medium Silver Dimensions 22.8 x 14 x 14 cm (9 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.) unspecified: 1718 g Inscriptions and Marks hallmark: under bases, struck: Lion passant, leopard's head, date letter and maker's mark Provenance Recorded Ownership History Earl Howe (?), sold [through Christie's, London, 1933, lot 106]. 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 1949.114.9.1-2 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description On stepped square bases with incurved corners, the centers with circular molding, rising to knopped baluster stems and campana-shaped sockets all of conforming section, the bases engraved within the circular moulding with a crest of a stake entwined by a vine within an oval motto: Qui capit ille facit flanked by two Bacchic supporters with another motto: Sine cercere et Baccho friget Venus below;numbered under the bases I and III and with scratch weights 29=8 and I26=19 respectively; the sockets fitted, probably in the twentieth century, with interior sleeves 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. 136-138, cat. no. 116, repr. p. 136, details repr. p. 136 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
