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Property from a Private Massachusetts Collection

Robert Riddle Jarvie

Pair of "Beta" Candlesticks

Lot Closed

October 20, 04:40 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Massachusetts Collection

Robert Riddle Jarvie

Pair of "Beta" Candlesticks


circa 1902

together with the original bobeches

gilt bronze

each impressed Jarvie/B

12 1/2 in. (31.7 cm) high each

Private Collection, Ballston Spa, New York

Thence by descent to the present owner

The International Studio, vol. 25, March-June 1905, ad. II (for a period advertisement of the model)

Robert Judson Clark, ed., The Arts and Crafts Movement in America 1876-1916, exh. cat., The Art Museum, Princeton University and The Art Institute of Chicago, 1972, p. 76, fig. 100

Sharon S. Darling, Chicago Metalsmiths, Chicago, 1977, p. 57, cat. no. 72

Richard Guy Wilson, From Architecture to Object: Masterworks of the American Arts & Crafts Movement, New York, 1989, p. 101

Leslie Greene Bowman, American Arts and Crafts: Virtue in Design, Los Angeles, 1990, p. 107

Thomas K. Maher, The Jarvie Shop: The Candlesticks and Metalwork of Robert R. Jarvie, Philmont, NY, 1997, front cover and p. 32

Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf, Makers: A History of American Studio Craft, Chapel Hill, NC, 2010, p. 70 (for an example of the model in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art)