Candlestick

Date1830-1845

Artist/Maker James Weekes

MediumPewter

DimensionsOH: 7 3/4"; DIAM(BASE): 4 1/4"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1930-582,2

DescriptionOne of a pair of candlesticks; circular in plan; flaring drip pan on straight-sided socket with molding at socket base; small molded knop over inverted-baluster stem with large molded knop over smaller, flattened knop; domed base falls from shoulder in concave curve to flat plane and then in a series of convex and concave moldings to edge.
InscribedNo
MarkingsMaker's touch "J.WEEKES" in incuse letters on underside of one base (Laughlin, II, p. 115).
ProvenanceNot known. Possibly Poughkeepsie, New York.
Vendor: Louis G. Myers, New York