A PAIR OF SILVER CANDLESTICKS

MAKER'S MARK OF GD, POSSIBLY FOR GEORGE DOWIG, BALTIMORE, CIRCA 1795

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A PAIR OF SILVER CANDLESTICKS
Maker's Mark of GD, possibly for George Dowig, Baltimore, circa 1795
Each on flaring square gadrooned base with fluted stem and attached circular nozzle; marked on base GD in an oval
9in. high (2)

拍品专文

A pair of virtually identical candlesticks at the Winterthur Museum by John Lynch of Baltimore is illustrated in Martha Fales, American Silver in the H.F. Du Pont Wintherthur Museum, 1958, fig.116, and in Ian Quimby, American Silver at Winterthur, 1995, p.394.