Pair of candlesticks
These chamber candlesticks were designed to be suspended from a hook, hung over a standign screen, or placed on a table. Both are formed of two lacquer dishes—one of black and gold, the other of red and gold—elaborately mounted with gilt bronze. The cup-shaped receptacles on the verticle handles originally contained candle extinguishers. The neoclassical design, combining pendent husks, rosettes, overlapping piasters, and draped festoons of berried laurel leaves, is closely related to the style of Jean-Charles Delafosse (1734–1791), a Parisian architect and ornamental artist who executed numerous sets of designs for furniture, metalwork, vases, trophies, and cartouches.
[Bill Rieder, 1984]
[Bill Rieder, 1984]
Artwork Details
- Title: Pair of candlesticks
- Date: ca. 1770–80
- Culture: French
- Medium: Japanese lacquer, gilt-bronze
- Dimensions: Height (each): 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm)
- Classification: Metalwork-Gilt Bronze
- Credit Line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
- Object Number: 1982.60.66, .67
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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French
ca. 1785
French
ca. 1790
French, Paris
ca. 1787–88
Jacques Demé
1690–91
Multiple artists/makers
after 1771–72, mounts ca. 1780
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