The Butler Hoard - 1st July 2025
Lot 297
A WROUGHT IRON ADJUSTABLE TWIN-BRANCH CANDLEHOLDER
Estimate £500 - £800 | Hammer £630
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Description
A WROUGHT IRON ADJUSTABLE TWIN-BRANCH CANDLEHOLDER
IN THE ARTS AND CRAFTS STYLE, ATTRIBUTED TO THORNTON AND DOWNER, LATE 19TH / EARLY 20TH 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.