A WROUGHT IRON ADJUSTABLE TWIN-BRANCH CANDLEHOLDER

A WROUGHT IRON ADJUSTABLE TWIN-BRANCH CANDLEHOLDER

IN THE ARTS AND CRAFTS STYLE, ATTRIBUTED TO THORNTON AND DOWNER, LATE 19^TH / EARLY 20^TH CENTURY

having a notch-edged bar terminating at each end in a candle socket and drip-pan, the bar rising and falling on a sprung frame, the stem with brass acorn finial, on a base of three downswept supports terminating in penny feet

58.7cm high

Catalogue Note

This candleholder was shown to Mary Greensted, former Keeper of Museums at the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, at a talk she gave at a meeting of the Antique Metalware Society titled ‘Ernest Gimson Metalwork’, who verbally identified it as being made by Thornton & Downer working for Charles R Ashbee.