Candlestick
c. 1547/1559
Ceramist
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 25
Artwork overview
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Medium
lead-glazed fine earthenware
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (height): 29.5 cm (11 5/8 in.)
overall (diameter of base): 16.6 cm (6 9/16 in.)
gross weight: 707.000 gr -
Accession
1942.9.352
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Edmé-Unité Jacquot-Préaux, Paris; (sale, Paris, 9-11 January 1850, no. 188,[1] sold for 4900 francs); Sir Anthony Rothschild, Bart. [d. 1876], London; by inheritance to his nephew, Alfred Charles de Rothschild [1842-1918], London, and Halton House, near Wendover, Buckinghamshire; bequeathed to his illegitimate daughter, Almina Victoria, Countess of Carnarvon [d. 1969], Highclere Castle, Hampshire; sold February 1923 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[2] purchased June 1923 by Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, after purchase by funds of the Estate; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] Catalogue de la précieuse collection d'objets d'art, d'antiquités et curiosités...composant le Cabinet de Monsieur Préaux, Paris, 9-11 January 1850, no. 188.
[2] See documents regarding the sale by Lady Carnarvon of three pieces of "Henri II ware" (this candlestick, a ewer with a faun handle, and a salt cellar) in the Duveen Brothers Records, accession no. 960015, reel 292, box 437, folders 4 and 5, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (copies in NGA curatorial files).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1850
Works of Ancient and Mediaeval Art, Society of Arts, London, 1850, (Catalogue of Works of Ancient and Mediaeval Art Exhibited at the House of the Society of Arts), no. 600, 20.
1857
Art Treasures of the United Kingdom: Museum of Ornamental Art, Art Treasures Palace, Manchester, 1857, not in catalogue.
1862
Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and More Recent Periods on Loan at the South Kensington Museum, June, 1862, South Kensington Museum, London, 1862, no. 1203.
Bibliography
1838
Du Sommerard, Alexandre and Edmond. Les arts au moyen age. 5 vols. Paris, 1838-1846: 5:241; album 7e série, chap. 16, pl. 34.
1844
Brongniart, Alexandre. Traité des arts céramiques. Paris, 1844: 175.
1847
Labarte, Jules. Description des objets d'art qui composent la collection Debruge Duménil precedé d'une introduction historique. Paris, 1847: 306.
1850
Archaeological Journal 7 (1850): repro. facing 209.
Catalogue of Works of Ancient and Mediaeval Art Exhibited at the House of the Society of Arts. Exh. cat. Society of Arts, London, 1850: no. 600, 20.
Marryat, Joseph. Collections towards a History of Pottery and Porcelain. London, 1850: 5354, fig. 28; also 2d ed., London, 1857: 108-109, fig. 57.
1851
Archaeological Journal 8 (1851): repro. facing 119.
De la Motte, Philip. Choice Examples of Art Workmanship Selected from the Exhibition of Ancient and Mediaeval Art at the Society of Arts. London, 1851: 11, repro.
1857
Robinson, John Charles. "Ceramic Art." In Art Treasures of the United Kingdom from the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester. Edited by J. B. Waring. London, 1857: pl. 9.
1860
Clément de Ris, Louis. "Les faïences de Henri II." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1st ser. 5 (1860): 46-47, no. 1, repro.
Tainturier, Alfred. Notice sur les faïences du XVI siècle dites de Henri II. Paris, 1860: 5, 15, no. 1.
1861
Delange/Delange 1861, pl. 19.
Robinson, John Charles. Notices of the Principal Works of Art in the Collection of Hollingworth Magniac, Esq. of Colworth. London, 1861: 75, no. 4.
1862
South Kensington 1862, no. 1203.
1864
Fillon, Benjamin. L'art de terre chez les Poitevins. Niort, 1864: 92, no. 18.
1868
King, A.C. Henri Deux Ware: Photographs of twenty examples of this ware chiefly in English collections, with an introductory notice. London (The Arundel Society), 1868: 8, no. 9.
1891
Bonnaffé, Edmond. "Faïences de Saint-Porchaire dites de Henri II." In La collection Spitzer: Antiquité, moyen âge, renaissance. 6 vols. Paris, 1890-1892: 2:128.
1935
Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 69, as c. 1560.
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 14, as Henri II Ware, Candlestick with masks and cupids.
1975
Jestaz 1975, 396, n. 31.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 204, no. 34, as c. 1555.
1987
Schnitzer, Barbara K. "The Sixteenth-Century French Ceramic Ware Called Saint-Porchaire." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1987: 204, no. 67, 207, pl. 32.
1993
Distelberger, Rudolf, Alison Luchs, Philippe Verdier, and Timonthy H. Wilson. Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1993: 257-263, color repro. 258.
1996
Barbour, Daphne and Sturman, Shelley. "Introduction." Studies in the History of Art 52 (1996): 12, repro. no. 3.
Sturman, Shelley and Barbour, Daphne. "'Saint-Porchaire' Ceramic Bodies." Studies in the History of Art 52 (1996): 79, 87, repro. 78.
Markings
label on underside: "Sir Anthony Rothschild No. 1"; written on underside: 18 [or possibly 81]
Wikidata ID
Q62131113