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TWO PAIRS OF CHELSEA FABLE CANDLESTICKS
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TWO PAIRS OF CHELSEA FABLE CANDLESTICKS

CIRCA 1765, THE SECOND PAIR WITH GOLD ANCHOR MARKS

Closed7 June 2017

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TWO PAIRS OF CHELSEA FABLE CANDLESTICKS
CIRCA 1765, THE SECOND PAIR WITH GOLD ANCHOR MARKS
The first pair modelled as The Cock & Jewel and The Vain Jackdaw on titled scroll-moulded bocage bases; the second pair modelled with three foxes and the other with three hounds on similar bases
The tallest: 11 in. (28 cm.) high

Specialist note

Examples of the Cock and Jewel and the Vain Jackdaw candlesticks are in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (accession numbers C.83-1932 and C.84-1932). Both designs were taken from Francis Barlow's publication of Aesop's Fables of either 1665 or 1687. The model for the Cock and the Jewel was adapted from engravings for Fable I, 'Du Coq et de la Pierre brillanté' and Fable 47, 'The Jay and the Peacock'.