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Pair of Candlesticks
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On stepped square bases with incurved corners, the centers with circular molding, rising to knopped baluster stems and campana-shaped sockets all of conforming section, the bases engraved within the circular moulding with a crest of a stake entwined by a vine within an oval motto: Qui capit ille facit flanked by two Bacchic supporters with another motto: Sine cercere et Baccho friget Venus below;numbered under the bases I and III and with scratch weights 29=8 and I26=19 respectively; the sockets fitted, probably in the twentieth century, with interior sleeves
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Earl Howe (?) sold [through Christie's London 1933 lot 106]. Archibald Alexander Hutchinson New York bequest; to Fogg Art Museum 1949.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Archibald A. Hutchinson Esq.
Title: Pair of Candlesticks
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On stepped square bases with incurved corners, the centers with circular molding, rising to knopped baluster stems and campana-shaped sockets all of conforming section, the bases engraved within the circular moulding with a crest of a stake entwined by a vine within an oval motto: Qui capit ille facit flanked by two Bacchic supporters with another motto: Sine cercere et Baccho friget Venus below;numbered under the bases I and III and with scratch weights 29=8 and I26=19 respectively; the sockets fitted, probably in the twentieth century, with interior sleeves.
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