Candlestick, between 1734 and 1735

  • Paul Lamerie, English, 1688-1751

Silver

  • Overall: 9 1/8 × 5 1/2 × 5 1/2 inches, 909.2 g (23.2 × 14 × 14 cm, 2 pounds 0.1 ounces)

Anonymous bequest

62.92.2

On View

  • British, Level 3, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Mark, under base: [lion passant; English quality mark for sterling] Mark, under base: [leopard's head crowned; London assay office mark] Mark, under base: t [date letter for 1734-35] Maker's mark: P.L. [over a fleur-de-lis, the whole surmounted by a star beneath a crown; Paul de Lemerie] Marks, engraved on underside of base: 30 = 17 [notations of weight]

Inscribed, on a ribbon below: SINE CERERE?! ET BACCHO FRIGET VENUS. Inscribed, on the band encircling medallion: QUI CAPIT __ LLE FACIT.

(S.J. Phillips, London)

private collection, Detroit

1962-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

The Institute Collects. Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1964, p. 22. Grimwade, A. London Goldsmiths 1697-1837. London, 1982, p. 488.

Paul Lamerie, Candlestick, between 1734 and 1735, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Anonymous bequest, 62.92.2.