Description:
Pair of brass candlesticks in the neoclassical style, a style that appeared in the mid 1760s and was popular til the end of the century. The candlesticks have a wide flange over a straight-sided socket with a fluted urn-shaped base; over an narrow collar; over three rings and a tapered fluted shaft; over an incurved shaft base with a round band of beading; over an "incurving Pyramidal" square base with two rows of beading. The heavily fluted column first appeared in silver forms about 1775, but was not often combined with the "incurving Pyramidal" base of this example. The tapered shaft or stem, an alternate to the straight column topped by a Corinthian or Doric-like socket, appeared in the mid 1780s. About the same time, the fluted tapering stem was being replaced by the plain tapered form; and the socket was developing a Grecian-vase form as the base was being shaped into a dome. Beading molding instead of gadrooning appeared on earlier examples of this form, and was common until around 1800; and the straight plain socket began to change to urn-shaped forms over baluster-knopped columns.
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