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拍品專文
Figure candlesticks first became popular on the continent in the late seventeenth century and the first recorded English pair with caryatids stem is by Anthony Nelme dated 1693 now in the collection of the Bank of England.
The fashion was unsurprisingly revived in the Rococo period with the first design produced by Meissonnier published in Paris in 1728, followed by the famous double-satyr candelabrum of 1732 by Thomas Germain and finally to be first reinterpreted in England by Kandler in 1737.
This particular model with floral festoons was first made by Paul de Lamerie in 1748 (a pair in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), and was probably created by the talented but anonymous modeller associated with de Lamerie from about 1736 until the late 1740s who was largely responsible for the artistic character of de Lamerie's later ornamental work.
Cafe followed closely behind with this elegant version which he appears to have produced from 1750. Details of John Cafe’s life are scarce. He was apprenticed to the candlestick maker James Gould before entering his mark in 1740. He worked until his death in 1757 when he was succeeded by his brother William, with whom he was already working judging by their indistinguishable cast candlesticks, something on which they appear to have had a monopoly in trade.
The fashion was unsurprisingly revived in the Rococo period with the first design produced by Meissonnier published in Paris in 1728, followed by the famous double-satyr candelabrum of 1732 by Thomas Germain and finally to be first reinterpreted in England by Kandler in 1737.
This particular model with floral festoons was first made by Paul de Lamerie in 1748 (a pair in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), and was probably created by the talented but anonymous modeller associated with de Lamerie from about 1736 until the late 1740s who was largely responsible for the artistic character of de Lamerie's later ornamental work.
Cafe followed closely behind with this elegant version which he appears to have produced from 1750. Details of John Cafe’s life are scarce. He was apprenticed to the candlestick maker James Gould before entering his mark in 1740. He worked until his death in 1757 when he was succeeded by his brother William, with whom he was already working judging by their indistinguishable cast candlesticks, something on which they appear to have had a monopoly in trade.