Lot Details
Lot 132
Charles Rohlfs Arts and Crafts Hand-Hammered Copper Three-Light Candlestand
1905
Stamped with Rohlfs logo and date year. Height 13 7/8 inches.
By 1900 Charles Rohlfs endeavored to reach a broader market by designing more affordable, decorative, or utilitarian objects such as candlesticks. Few examples of all-metal candlesticks are known. The present example from a private collection was exhibited in The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs at Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009-2011. An illustration of the candlestand on offer is also featured in the exhibition publication, The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs by Joseph Cunningham, Yale University Press, 2008, p. 212.
C A Private Collection of Important Design
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