Object Number 1958.2757

Object Name

Candlestick

Category

Metals

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Edward Kendrick (Maker)

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Origin Notes

Previoulsy identified as made in England.

Date

1782-1800

Materials

Brass

Techniques

Cast

Dimensions (inches)

9.055 (H) , 4.567 (Diam)

Dimensions (centimeters)

23 (H) , 11.6 (Diam)

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Fennimore, Donald L. 1996 Metalwork in Early America: Copper and Its Alloys from the Winterthur Collection.
• Similar published as cat. no. 127, p.215
[Book] Koldeweij, Eloy. 2001 The English Candlestick: 500 Years in the development of base-metal candlesticks: 1425-1925.
• See similar candlesticks on p. 132,
[Book] Schiffer, Nancy N., et al. 1978 The Brass Book: American, English and European, Fifteenth Century through 1850.
• See similar candlesticks on p. 198.
[Book] Grove, John Robert. 1967 Antique Brass Candlesticks: 1450-1750.
• See similar candlesticks on p. 52, pl. 63.
[Article] Butler, Roderick. 1998 "EK: an 18th Century Candlestick Maker Unmasked". Journal of the Antique Metalware Society. 6: 17-24.
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[Book] Butler, Roderick. 2001 A Study Collection of Marked Domestic Brass and other Base Metalware c. 1600-c.1900.
• See pp. 51-54.