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Candlestick
Possibly by: Pierre Jarrin (French, active 1712–1764)
French (Paris)
1714–15
Object Place: Europe, Paris, France
Medium/Technique
Metal; silver
Dimensions
17.4 x 10.5 cm (6 7/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Collection
Accession Number1993.245.1
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSilver
DescriptionOne of a pair of candlesticks, cast with a domed square base with canted corners. A gadrooned band with chased floral motifs on matting encircles the dome of the base. A gadrooned octagonal knop rises to a tapering octagonal stem with similar chasing. The stem gives way to a similar knop. The octagonal nozzle has a gadrooned base and floral chasing on a matted ground on four of the sides.
Marks
Maker's Mark: incomplete, a crowned fleur-de-lis, two grains, a P, a star, an I (really looks like an I) (identified in Nocq, Le poincon de Paris, Vol. II, p. 353).
Warden's Mark: 1714-1715: a crowned X (Dennis, 100).
Charge Mark: 1712-1717: an A on an inverted crown (Dennis, 100). This crown A is now thought to be for 1711-1713.
Discharge Mark: 1712-1717: a rooster with a raised right claw (Dennis, 359). This mark is now known to be for 1714-1717.
Warden's Mark: 1714-1715: a crowned X (Dennis, 100).
Charge Mark: 1712-1717: an A on an inverted crown (Dennis, 100). This crown A is now thought to be for 1711-1713.
Discharge Mark: 1712-1717: a rooster with a raised right claw (Dennis, 359). This mark is now known to be for 1714-1717.
InscriptionsThere is an engraved crest on the base.
Provenance1926, Deligand [see note 1]. May, 1952, sold by H. Bauer, Paris, to Elizabeth Parke Firestone (b. 1897 - d. 1990) and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. (b. 1898 - d. 1973), Akron, OH and Newport, RI; 1993, gift of the estate of Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 26, 1993)
NOTES:
[1] Lent to the Exposition d'Orfèvrerie Française Civile du XVIe siècle au début du XIXe (Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, April 12- May 12, 1926), cat. no. 275.
NOTES:
[1] Lent to the Exposition d'Orfèvrerie Française Civile du XVIe siècle au début du XIXe (Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, April 12- May 12, 1926), cat. no. 275.