Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A PAIR OF GEORGE III SHEET-BRASS CANDLESTICKS

IN THE NEO-CLASSICAL STYLE AND CONSTRUCTED IN THE OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE MANNER, C.1770

each having a removeable beaded cusp-edged sconce, a stiff-leaf tulip-shaped socket, cluster-column stem and raised concave square base with rondels, swags and jewelled edges, one with original mahogany weighted base (2)

31.5cm high

Catalogue Note

This pair of sheet-brass candlesticks may have been experimental, a prototype, as no other examples are presently recorded except the proceeding lot.

See Lyon and Turnbull, Silver and Jewellery, 5 December 2002, lot 457 for a comparable silver example.

Literature

See Keith Pinn, 'Paktong, The Chinese Alloy in Europe, 1680-1820', p.106, pl. 69 for a similar brass candlestick.