Robert Tyrill
Candlestick (set of eight)

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Candlestick (set of eight)
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ArtistEnglish, active c. 1720–1757
CultureEnglish
Titles
  • Candlestick (set of eight)
Date1752 - 53
PlaceLondon, England
MediumSterling silver
Dimensionsoverall: 12 5/8 × 8 × 7 3/4 in. (32.1 × 20.3 × 19.7 cm)
.A (candlestick): 12 1/4 × 8 × 8 in.
.B (bobeche): 1 11/16 × 3 3/4 in. diameter
Credit LineThe Rienzi Collection, museum purchase funded by Isla Reckling in honor of the wonderful volunteers and Rienzi staff members Joanie McMillin, Carrie Robinson-Cannon, Cindi Strauss, Lois Corcoran, Katherine Howe, James Hainsworth and Gary Hall
Object number2001.620.A,.B
Current Location
Rienzi
Rienzi Dining Room
On view

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Department
Rienzi
Object Type
Description

With their curvaceous torsos, asymmetrical compositions, well-sculpted curves and fine casting, these candlesticks, part of a larger set of eight, are excellent examples of the artistic heights reached by the silversmith in eighteenth-century England.


Until the 1730s, English candlesticks tended to mimic the simple column shapes of architectural forms. By the 1740s, however, silversmiths began to expand their interests with the fresh influence of the French Rococo. Candlesticks became more highly ornamented, theatrical and, in the spirit of some art of the period, more bacchanalian. Set within a great eighteenth-century English town or country house, candlesticks such as these helped create an ambience of wit and merriment.


 


Provenance[Brand Inglis, Ltd., London, c. 1991]; [Kenneth Davis, London]; [Harris Lindsay, Ltd., London]; Mr. and Mrs. John Kurtz, Oxford; [S. J. Phillips, Ltd., London, 2001]; purchased by MFAH, 2001.
Exhibition History"English Taste: The Art of Dining in the Eighteenth Century," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 17 September 2011 - 29 January 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
On side or underneath base, "R T" with a pellet in a rectangle and London hallmarks for 1752–53.

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