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Pair of candelabra
Claude Ballin II, the Younger1739–40
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Pair of candelabra, each composed of three parts 2a/c; 2d/f). The first candelabrum: -2a) base composed of scrolled and molded enframements and free rococo motives in high relief; -2b) three-branch element composed around free scroll and floral themes; -2c) single terminal branch, also of free scroll and floral theme, which fits into socket at top of part b. The second candelabrum: -2d) base composed of scrolled and molded enframements and free rococo motifs in high relief; -2e) three-branch element composed around free scroll and floral themes; -2f) single terminal branch, also of free scroll and floral theme, which fits into socket at top of part e.
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- Title: Pair of candelabra
- Creator: Claude Ballin II, the Younger
- Creator Lifespan: 1661/1754
- Date Created: 1739–40
- Physical Dimensions: w245 x h483 cm
- Type: Pair of candelabra
- Rights: Gift of Anonymous Donor
- Medium: Silver
- Provenance: Gift of Anonymous Donor
- Markings: On parts -2a & d (bases): maker's mark, date letter for 1739-40, Paris charge and discharge marks for 1738-44. On parts -2b & e ( three-branch elements): date letter for 1739-40, Paris charge and discharge marks for 1738-44. On -2c & f (terminal branches): discharge mark.
- Exhibitions: New York, NY, Cooper Union Museum, "Ends and Beginnings," 5/57-8/57 New York, NY, The Brooklyn Museum, "Elias Pelletreau, Long Island Silversmith and his sources of design," 1/27/59-3/15/59, No. 117Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, "Treasures from the Cooper Union Museum," 7/13/67-9/24/67, no.138New York, NY, Cooper Union Museum, "All that Glisters," 1950, p.19, no.121New York, NY, Cooper-Hewitt, "More than Meets the Eye," 11/15/77-3/15/78New York, NY, Cooper-Hewitt, "Rococo: The Continuing Curve," 3/6/08-7/7/08
- Dimensions: H x diam. (a/c): 48.3 x 24.5 cm (19 x 9 5/8 in.)H x diam. (d/f): 48 x 25 cm (18 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Cooper Union Museum, "An Illustrated Survery of the Collections", N.Y., 1957, p.33.Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bulletin. Vol. XV , 1929 (June), p. 135 (description of these candelabra in the Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May-October, 1920.)Nocq, Henry. Le Poincon de Paris. Vol. 4, 1931, p. 233 (marks 2 and 4 (?) illustrated) p. 216 (mark 3 listed).
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