Candlestick

Description

One of a pair of silver candlesticks with a removable sconce, by Charles Allan, Jamaica, c. 1747 - 1748, and assayed by Assay Master Charles Wood

Museum reference

X.2021.26.6.1

Object name

Candlestick

Production information

Allan, Charles, 1710 (b.) - 1760 (fl.), Maker
Jamaica, Caribbean
Wood, Charles, c. 1748 (fl.), Assay master

Date

c. 1747

Materials

Silver

Physical description

On incurved square bases with splayed shell corners. The central columns rising from recessed wells with circular a knop and a shell caped incurved square knop leading to a plain capital. Each with removable sconces of square form with shell corners. Marked underneath with maker’s mark, assay master’s mark and alligator’s head (from 1747).

Credit

Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by H M Government from the estate of Robert Barker and allocated to the National Museums Scotland [or NMS], 2021