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Silverware
Author: dodo23 May
Chambersticks
Modest and practical, the silver chamberstick was in use during the seventeenth century, but examples are not generally found before the last quarter of the century. In the line of the old nursery rhyme, ‘Here comes a candle to light you to bed’, the words refer to a chamberstick which consisted of a saucer-shaped base for safety, with a short candle-socket in its centre, and a simple handle by which to carry it around the house. Larger homes might later have an assortment of such chambersticks set upon a table in the hall, a person taking one when it was needed and lighting it from a special master taper. Usually made of a lighter metal, the diameter of the saucer-shaped dish varied but generally measured about six inches, the short socket standing about three inches high. Most late seventeenth and eighteenth century examples would have a shapely scroll handle soldered beneath the base and curving upwards. (more…)
Silver Candlesticks and Accessories
Author: dodo23 May
Candlesticks
Although the primitive method of lighting the home by candles has long been outmoded, candle production thrives today for decorative and ornamental reasons. Thus a continuity of this ancient form of lighting is maintained, and with it the need for the traditional candlestick in silver, Sheffield plate or electro-plate. Candlesticks in precious metals were slow to come into the ordinary home, which is hardly surprising since, although the two guilds of tallow-chandlers and wax-chandlers were incorporated in the later years of the fifteenth century, only from the early eighteenth century did candles brighten the house of the more prosperous working man. Before this they would be found in abundance only in the great houses of the land, or for ecclesiastical use the pricket candlestick was adopted since it took the form of a conical spike which would support any type of candle. Variations of these were sometimes made for certain domestic uses, although not usually in silver. (more…)
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