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Candelabra


Sir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.
On long-term loan to Los Angeles County Museum from 2010.


Object details

Object type
Candelabra
Parts
This object consists of 6 parts.

  • Branch
  • Candelabra
  • Sconce
  • Drip Pan
  • Sconce
  • Drip Pan
Materials and techniques
silver, cast, chased, engraved, matted
Silver
Casting
Chasing
Engraving (Incising)
Matting
Brief description
Candelabrum, silver, Paul de Lamerie, 1745-1747.
Physical description
Silver two light candelabra on a shaped circular base decorated with shells and scrolls and chased with a band of rosettes. The baluster stem is chased with scrolls, flowers and matting. The two light branches are of broken scroll form chased and molded with foliage and with baluster-and-flame finials. The base of the candlestick is engraved with a vacant rococo cartouche from which a coat of arms has been erased.
Credit line
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Object history
Provenance: Mabel, Brady, Garvan, sale, Sotheby's, New York, lot 104, June 6, 1980.
Summary
Sir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.
On long-term loan to Los Angeles County Museum from 2010.
Associated object
LOAN:GILBERT.647:1-2008
Bibliographic references
  • Schroder, Timothy. The Gilbert collection of gold and silver. Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1988, cat. no. 72, pp. 278-79. ISBN.0875871445
  • Williams, Elizabeth A. The Gilbert Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), 2010, fig. 5, p. 28. ISBN 9780875872100
Other numbers
  • L.2010.9.21.1 - LACMA Loan Number 2010
  • SG 122B - Arthur Gilbert Number
  • 1996.907 - The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
LOAN:GILBERT.646:2-2008

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Record createdJune 26, 2008
Record URL
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