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Candlestick
Silver
Origin: London
Date: 1714-1715
17 cm height; 282 g weight
Marks/Maker: London, Britannia standard, 1714-15, maker's mark of Joseph Bird
Heraldry: Crest of Jones of Williamstry Park, Fairford, Gloucestershire
Bequeathed by J. Reginald Jones, 1951; WA1951.51.11
T. Schroder (2009), no. 174
This is one of the two examples in the Museum's collection of the many forms of standard domestic cast candlestick made during the first two or three decades of the eighteenth century. Based on the French 'flambeau la financi re', this was initially associated with Huguenot makers but gradually became the norm (see also WA1946.54b).
Information derived from T. Schroder, British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean (2009)
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