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Candle Snuffers
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The snuffers of scissor-form, plain loop handles, the box with hinged pad with steel edge; the inside engraved with scratch weight 4=18;the oval tray on four bun feet, with moulded rim and flat baluster handle with two flanking openwork scrolls, the center engraved with accolé coats-of-arms within foliate scroll mantling
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
David Berg New York; his bequest to the Fogg Museum 1999.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of David Berg
Title: Candle Snuffers
Description:
The snuffers of scissor-form, plain loop handles, the box with hinged pad with steel edge; the inside engraved with scratch weight 4=18;the oval tray on four bun feet, with moulded rim and flat baluster handle with two flanking openwork scrolls, the center engraved with accolé coats-of-arms within foliate scroll mantling.
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