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Pair of Candlesticks

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Two nearly identical silver candlesticks, each carrying the (unidentified) maker’s mark HW in an escutcheon-shaped punch with two pellets above and escallop below on both sticks and nozzles.
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts Alexander Douglas-Hamilton 10th Duke of Hamilton London; to his trustees 1852 sold [through Christie's London November 4 1919 lot 91]. Private Collector sold [through Puttick and Simpson London March 2 1922 lot 124 (probably unsold). Private Collector sold [through Christie's London December 11 1922 lot 37; to Willson London. George E. P. How Endinburgh. A.F. Graham-Watson before 1929 after 1958. [Spink & Son Ltd. London 1990]. [Koopman Rare Art Ltd. London] sold; to Harvard Art Museums 2001. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum The David Berg Bequest Fund and the Paul Clarke Stauffer Fund
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Title: Pair of Candlesticks
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Two nearly identical silver candlesticks, each carrying the (unidentified) maker’s mark HW in an escutcheon-shaped punch with two pellets above and escallop below on both sticks and nozzles.

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