Old plate, ecclesiastical, decorative, and domestic; its makers and marks (1888)
Buck, J. H. (John Henry), 1849-1914 · New-York, The Gorham Manufacturing Company · leaf 160
130 OLD PLATE. plain balusters. A candlestick of 1722 illustrates a tran- sition period, after which, at about the middle of the last century, the baluster stem, already a little modified, became much ornamented with the oblique gadrooning of Louis Xy. taste.' Towards 1765 it finally gave way to… … NO. 49.— CAi^DLESTiCK (1698); MESSRS. HOWAED & CO. mOVaMc UOZzlcS are sometimes to be found on candlesticks of the reign of Greo. II., but not often. The sockets of the candlesticks of the later part of the centm'y are in many cases shaped as vases ornamented with hanging wreaths. Silver sconces…
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