Live Auction 8999Colefax and Fowler, Then and Now: Collections From Hambleden Manor, Lushill, and 39 Brook Street, Mayfair
A PAIR OF ENGLISH BRASS ALTARSTICKS
Lot 176

A PAIR OF ENGLISH BRASS ALTARSTICKS

MID-19TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY A.W.N. PUGIN, POSSIBLY CAST BY HARDMAN OF BIRMINGHAM

Closed10 July 2013

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GBP 3,750

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A PAIR OF ENGLISH BRASS ALTARSTICKS
MID-19TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY A.W.N. PUGIN, POSSIBLY CAST BY HARDMAN OF BIRMINGHAM
Later fitted for electricity and mounted on simulated marble bases
61 in. (155 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

The architectural form of these candlesticks and the lions to each base conform to a similar documented design by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) and manufactured by John Hardman & Company. The Hardman archive lists a set of six produced in 1846 for a 'J.V.Gandolfi Esq.' at 47s each, 14 2s (see 'A.W.N. Pugin, Master of Gothic Revival', BGC/Yale, 1995, Exhibition Catalogue, no. 75, p. 310).