Two candlesticks Maker: George Ridout (American, active ca. 1751)

ca. 1745–55

American Decorative Arts

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm)
base (Base (a)): 3 15/16 in. (10 cm)
base (Base (b)): 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1053a-b

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Lighting Devices

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Tyson Family; R.T. Haines Halsey (1865–1942), New York, NY, before 1906–29; purchased by Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, NY, 1929–30; gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1930
Bibliography
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 104, ill
  • Barbara M. Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward, eds., Silver in American Life: Selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1979), 148, no. 155, ill
  • Kathryn C. Buhler and Graham Hood, American Silver in the Yale University Art Gallery, 2 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), vol. 2, p. 123, no. 694, ill
  • John Marshall Phillips, Early American Silver Selected from the Mabel Garvan Collection, Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1960), no. 19, ill
  • V. Isabelle Miller, Silver by New York Makers, Late 17th Century to 1900, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1937), 25, no. 244
  • Clara Louise Avery, An Exhibition of Early New York Silver, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931), fig. 56
  • Clara Louise Avery, Early American Silver (New York: The Century Co., 1930), 351
  • R. T. Haines Halsey, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Silver Used in New York, New Jersey, and the South, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1911), 45, no. 94
  • Henry W. Kent and Florence N. Levy, The Hudson-Fulton Celebration: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1909), vol. 2, p. 126, no. 461
  • American Silver, the Work of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Silversmiths, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1906), 87, no. 291–92, pls. 5, 11
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

candlesticks

Marks

"GR" in clip-cornered rectangle under foot of (a)

Inscriptions

Tyson crest engraved on foot of each; "PVBS" below socket of each

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