AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE PAIR OF LARGE AND FINE 'CHALICE AND PATEN' BRASS CANDLESTICKS

AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE PAIR OF LARGE AND FINE 'CHALICE AND PATEN' BRASS CANDLESTICKS

ENGLISH, C. 1550

each having a double-waisted socket, an addorsed baluster stem centred by a discoid knop, a dome-centred flat drip-pan with moulded edge (the paten), on a chalice-shape support, and spreading two-stage base, with linear bands of decoration (2)

32cm high

Catalogue Note

One candlestick has been re-peaned, the other with top and base held be a screw which uniquely provides access to view casting and turning technique. This pair is amongst the largest of their type recorded.

See the Victoria & Albert Museum Collection, London, for a virtually identical single candlestick, part of the W.G. Mackay Thomas bequest, acc. no. M.21-1964. See also Christie's, The Lear Collection, King Street, London, 15th December 1998, lot 53 (£21,850); the William Du Pont Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 22nd June 2022, lot 196 ($35,280) and lot 197, ($21,420). See alsoThe 'Bertie' Isher Collection, Bruton Knowles, 27th April 1976, lot 208.