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Pair of counter-balance candlesticks

Ref: 1509
  • Designer / Maker

    Designed and manufactured by W.A.S. Benson (1854-1924)

  • Detail

    Copper and brass

    30 cm (long)

    English (London), circa 1900

  • Collection

    Private collection

  • Notes

    These counter-balance candlesticks are described in Benson’s Price List of Fittings for Oil, Gas, Candle, Table Ware, &c., 1899–1900 as ‘[f]or Piano or Mantlepiece’.

    Benson designed ‘Counter-balance’ candlesticks in three models, finished either entirely silvered, or in a mixture, as here, of brass and copper. Variants are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and the British Museum, London.