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Maker(s):Cafe, John
Culture:English (d.1757)
Title:candlestick
Date Made:1746-1747
Type:Lighting Device
Materials:silver
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; London
Measurements:overall: 8 3/4 in; 22.225 cm
Accession Number:  HD 84.038
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
One of two silver rococo candlesticks (see HD 84.039) with a square, shaped bobeche with a molded leaf in the four corners and eleven-lobed shell in the four corners of the base, which is marked with a rosette over "IC" in gothic script in a punch for John Cafe (d.c.1757), a lion passant, and date letter for 1746-1747. John Cafe was apprenticed to James Gould in 1730 and free in 1740 when he entered his first mark. On his death in 1757, his apprentices were turned over to his brother, William Cafe, who himself had apprenticed with John Cafe from 1742-1746. Both brothers specialized in candlesticks and used indistinguishable cast candlesticks. Also see similar Cafe taperstick, HD P.052.

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