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Description: | 1. Three crosses in vertical line with a crown above.
2. Date (obscured)
3. Maker "ILS"
4. Engraved with butterfly CRE UNKNOWN; This is one of a pair (see also 54078) of Dutch silver candlesticks. They are both on a square stepped base and are topped by Corinthian capitals and quatrefoil shaped drip pans. Whistler's plate book says that they were bought from "Robert Dicker of Vigo Street, May 18,1888" for "36.0.0" pounds. An exhibition catalogue of 1902 dates them to 1780.
This is part of a collection of over 350 pieces of flatware and cutlery from the Whistler Estate. Whistler's silver was a working collection of late 18th and early 19th century Dutch and English ware, acquired in the late 1880s and 1890s with his wife Beatrix Whistler. A plate book (coll. Glasgow University Library Special Collections, ref W NB7) records some purchases. Whistler's taste was for elegant neo-classical pieces which he often had marked with his distinctive butterfly design. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | WHISTLER CENTENARY : CANDLE : CORINTHIAN : AMSTERDAM : SILVER : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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