A PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY WHITE METAL CANDLESTICKS

A PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY WHITE METAL CANDLESTICKS

MAKER MARKED, POSSIBLY FÜRTH, GERMANY

each with a flared octagonal socket, discoid knop and faceted inverted baluster stem, on a matching circular spreading foot, punched maker's mark 'PR' to the foot rim (2)

17.2cm high

Literature

Illustrated in R. Butler, 'A Study Collection of Marked Domestic Brass and Other Base Metalware, c.1600 - c.1900' (2001), p. 71, no. 151. The author notes that the crescents flanking the maker's initials may indicate the candlesticks were made in Fürth, near Nuremberg, where a cuspate crescent was the assay mark used for silver during the 19th century.