Jan & John Maggs

Antiques and Art

An 18th century brass candlestick with cut card base

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The elaborately knopped and ringed shaft rises from a stepped cut-card base. Inside the shaft, but inoperative today, is a twist-up ejection mechanism. A nearly identical candlestick is pictured in Eloy Koldeweij’s The English Candlestick, 1425 – 1925, CAT. 87, where it is attributed to George Grove (Active 1748 – 1768) in Birmingham.

Height: 7”; Width of base: 4”

English, 1748 – 1749

Price: $185

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