Pair of Candlesticks from a Console Set

Maker: Erik Magnussen (Danish, 1884–1961)

1927

American Decorative Arts

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design
Medium

Sterling silver, ivory, and ebony

Dimensions

each: 12 × 4 3/4 in. (30.48 × 12.07 cm)

Credit Line

Purchased with a gift from Jacqueline Loewe Fowler and the John P. Axelrod, B.A. 1968, Fund

Accession Number

2012.61.1.1-.2

Geography

Made in Providence, Rhode Island

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Lighting Devices

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Sale, Main Auction Galleries, Cincinnati, April 15, 2012, lot 85; sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., April 15, 2012
Bibliography
  • Sarah D. Coffin, Stephen Harrison, and Emily M. Orr, The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s, exh. cat. (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017), 287, 352, no. 242, fig. 352
  • Patricia E. Kane, "Erik Magnussen: Masterpieces Revealed," Antiques and Fine Art 13, issue 2 (Summer 2014), 154–155, 157, fig. 1
  • "Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 21, 2012), 19, ill
  • John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 22
  • "Black Starr and Frost-Gorham, Inc.," Town and Country 84 (March, 1930), 71–72
  • Harold Donaldson Eberlein, "Decorators' Exhibit at the Architectural League Show," Good Furniture 32, no. 6 (June 1929), 288
  • Randolph Williams Sexton, The Logic of Modern Architecture: Exteriors and Interiors of Modern American Buildings (New York: Architectural Book Publishing, 1929), 92
Object copyright
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

candlesticks

Marks

"EM / STERLING / 5 / 1927" on the foot ring of each stick

Inscriptions

"MKL" [intertwined] engraved on the socket of each stick

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