A PAIR OF BRASS AND COPPER CANDLE HOLDERS

This model of light, described as 'counterweighted candlesticks for piano or mantlepiece', a pair of this model is illustrated in I. Hamerton ed., W.A.S. Benson: Arts and Crafts Luminary and Pioneer of Modern Design, Woodbridge, 2005, p. 121, pl. 98; the model was also illustrated, 'with silk eye-shade' no. 9A in Benson's Price List of Fittings for Oil, Gas, Candle Table Ware & C, Appendix 1A, Catalogue of Lighting and Hollow-ware Designs (1899-1900), that illustration is reproduced by Hammerton (ibid., p 253, pl. 23).