BY W.A.S. BENSON (1854-1924), EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Details

A PAIR OF BRASS AND COPPER CANDLE HOLDERS
BY W.A.S. BENSON (1854-1924), EARLY 20TH CENTURY
With 'seedpod' counterweights
5 1⁄4 in. (14.5 cm.) high; 13 in. (33 cm.) long

Provenance

Supplied by François-Joseph Graf.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

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).

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