A heavy baluster candlestick, circa 1720-30
The cylindrical nozzle with a folded rim, set on a half knop and annular knop, over a central teared five-ringed annulated knop, the basal beaded knop resting on three graduated collars, over a high terraced beehive foot, 19.3cm high
Provenance
Robert Frank Collection, Sotheby's sale, 18 April 1944, lot 39
Harvey Hadden Collection, Sotheby's sale, 9 July 1946, lot 178
Literature
E F Strange, Old Furniture: A Magazine of Domestic Ornament, vol.3 (1928), p.36, fig.2
Similar candlesticks are illustrated and discussed by Dwight P Lanmon, The Golden Age of English Glass (2011), pp.222-4, nos.73 and 75. Another example was sold by Bonhams on 3 June 2009, lot 38. See also the candlesticks and tapersticks of similar form illustrated by Delomosne and Son, The Baluster Family of English Drinking Glasses (1985), p.54, nos.25(a-c).
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The cylindrical nozzle with a folded rim, set on a half knop and annular knop, over a central teared five-ringed annulated knop, the basal beaded knop resting on three graduated collars, over a high terraced beehive foot, 19.3cm high
Provenance
Robert Frank Collection, Sotheby's sale, 18 April 1944, lot 39
Harvey Hadden Collection, Sotheby's sale, 9 July 1946, lot 178
Literature
E F Strange, Old Furniture: A Magazine of Domestic Ornament, vol.3 (1928), p.36, fig.2
Similar candlesticks are illustrated and discussed by Dwight P Lanmon, The Golden Age of English Glass (2011), pp.222-4, nos.73 and 75. Another example was sold by Bonhams on 3 June 2009, lot 38. See also the candlesticks and tapersticks of similar form illustrated by Delomosne and Son, The Baluster Family of English Drinking Glasses (1985), p.54, nos.25(a-c).
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