Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
Auction Closed
April 16, 08:57 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A MASSIVE PAIR OF AMERICAN SILVER "GEORGE III STYLE" NINE-LIGHT CANDELABRA, DESIGNED BY PAULDING FARNHAM FOR TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1902-1907
incurved bases topped by stylized palmettes, rising to two tiers of scrolling acanthus branches with leafy sconces around central spiral-fluted sconce, tops of bases with monogram NHH, engraved underneathJHH to NHH, 1881-1906
marked on bases and numbered 15448-5740
793 oz 15 dwt
24,687 g
height 31 in.
78.3 cm
Sotheby's New York, January 21, 2011, lot 95
These candelabra are probably the most impressive pieces in a suite of items designed by Paulding Farnham in a "George III Revival" style. The earliest pieces formed part of Tiffany's gold-medal-winning display at the 1900 Paris exhibition, and can be compared with Farnham's neoclassical jewelry designs for the same fair (see the turquoise tiara, p. 119, John Loring, Paulding Farnham: Tiffany's Lost Genius).
The centerpiece from the Paris group is now in the Dallas Museum of Art, but when it was sold from Evergreen House, Baltimore, at Sotheby Parke Bernet in 1975, it was accompanied by a pair of four-light candelabra that are a reduced version of the offered pieces, as well as candlesticks, compotes, dessert dishes, claret jugs, and other pieces designed en suite (March 21, 1975, lots 107-114). Another matching centerpiece, completed in 1904, is illustrated John Loring, Tiffany's 150 Years, p. 126.