Pair of Candlesticks Maker: Paul Revere (American, 1735–1818)

ca. 1790–1800

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm)
base: 4 in. (10.2 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1208a-b

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Lighting Devices

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Provenance
Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759-1846); her daughter, Sarah Morton Cunningham (1782-1844); her daughter, Griselda Cunningham Clinch (1810-1872); her daughter, Sarah Clinch Bond (b. 1835); her son, William Cranch Bond; William Bond and Son, Boston; Francis P. Garvan, New York, New York; gift in 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 809
  • 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. 1, pp. 200–1, no. 262
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

candlesticks

Marks

"REVERE" in clip-cornered rectangle with uneven lower line on edge of foot, almost obliterated

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