
Property from a Private Massachusetts Collection
Pair of "Beta" Candlesticks
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October 20, 04:40 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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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)
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