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Silver candlesticks decorated with masks and shells, by Peter Archambo

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An image of 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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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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  • Accession Number: M.8.1 & A-1950; M.8.2 & A-1950
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/29.0
  • Focal length: 50
  • Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 785 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows
  • Filesize: 96.29kB
  • Exposure time: 1/100
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 29/1
  • Captured: 2007:08:09 23:01:00

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18th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC candle holder candlesticks cast crest English engraved Fitz_AA Georgian headdress knop masks pair Peter Archambo sconce sea shell seashells shells silver silverware

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