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M.8.1 & A-1950: One of a pair of candlesticks. Archambo, Peter I, silversmith, England, London. The cast candlestick has an urn-shaped sconce on a square vase-shaped column with shell corners. This is over a knop decorated with masks of men and women in medieval headresses. The foot has a central circular well; the shaped square sides are stepped and in each of the four corners is a large mask of a women with flowing hair or a bearded man. The detachable nozzle has an applied moulded border. Both the stick and the nozzle are engraved with a crest. E.L is engraved under the foot. Silver, height, to nozzle, 12.7 cm, width, foot, 15 cm, weight 900 g, 1733-1734. Rococo. M.8.2 & A-1950: One of a pair of candlesticks. Archambo, Peter I, silversmith, England, London. The candlestick has an urn-shaped sconce on a square vase-shaped column with shell corners. This is over a knop decorated with masks of men and women in medieval headresses. The foot has a central circular well; the shaped square sides are stepped and in each of the four corners is a large mask of a women with flowing hair or a bearded man. The detachable nozzle has an applied moulded border. Both the stick and the nozzle are engraved with a crest. E.L is engraved under the foot. Silver, height, to nozzle, 12.7 cm, width, foot, 15 cm, weight 910 g, 1733-1734. Rococo.
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