Chamber candlestick
Not on view
Hand or chamber candlesticks were designed to be portable for carrying around the house to light one’s way to the bed chamber. This eighteenth-century example is supported on three knob feet, it has a straight spoon-type handle, the socket is partially gadrooned and the round wax pan has a gadrooned edge.
Daughter of one of the founders of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Catherine D. Wentworth (1865–1948) was an art student and painter who lived in France for thirty years. She became one of the most important American collectors of eighteenth-century French silver and on her death in 1948 bequeathed part of her significant collection of silver, gold boxes, French furniture, and textiles to the Metropolitan Museum. The collection is particularly strong in domestic silver, much of it provincial such as this chamber candlestick, and includes a number of rare early pieces.
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