Live Auction 2343Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Prints
A PAIR OF GEORGE II ENGRAVED ARMORIAL CAST BRASS CANDLESTICKS
Lot 86 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF BENJAMIN F. EDWARDS III

A PAIR OF GEORGE II ENGRAVED ARMORIAL CAST BRASS CANDLESTICKS

3NGLISH, MID-18TH CENTURY

Closed29 September 2010

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II ENGRAVED ARMORIAL CAST BRASS CANDLESTICKS
3NGLISH, MID-18TH CENTURY
together with an engraved George II armorial silver-form cast brass candlestick
6¾ in. high to 8½ in. high (3)

Mark and Marjorie Allen, New Hampshire

Specialist note

The pair are similar in form to silver models by John Cafe and others. For a similar example of the single stick, see Peter, Nancy and Herbert Schiffer, The Brass Book: American, English and European Fifteenth Century through 1850 (Exton, Pennsylvania, 1978), ill. 203A.