candlestick
- Museum number
- 1995,0715.1
- Description
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Nickel silver candlestick of an S-shape cross-section with two candle holders. Cut from a single sheet of metal, folded at the centre to form an S-shaped stem, the arms cut from the same sheet and bent round to a spiral at each end to enclose the separate candle holders, with a small section cut back and bent round to form a tiny decorative spiral at the base of each arm. The spirals at the base of the stem formed in the same way, cut from the sheet and bent round. The whole placed on a separate flat rectangular sheet as the base.
Maker's mark on the base.
- Production date
- 1931 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 324 millimetres
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Width: 260 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Designed by Karl Heubler and made at the Reimann-Schule, Berlin. For a similar pair of candlesticks in brass, and further discussion, see Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, 'Modern Art of Metalwork. Bröhan-Museum, Berlin, 2001, p. 282, cat. 262, and pp. 278-80 for Heubler and the Reimann-Schule.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited: BM, 20th-century gallery, 1996-2006
- Acquisition date
- 1995
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1995,0715.1
