Tools and EquipmentBritish18th century
Candle Snuffers
1711-1712
Artists
Joseph BirdArtist
Description
The snuffers of scissor-form, plain loop handles, the box with hinged pad with steel edge; the inside engraved with scratch weight 4=18;the oval tray on four bun feet, with moulded rim and flat baluster handle with two flanking openwork scrolls, the center engraved with accolé coats-of-arms within foliate scroll mantling
Dimensions
14.6 x 3.5 x 5 cm (5 3/4 x 1 3/8 x 1 15/16 in.) unspecified: 133 g
Provenance
David Berg, New York; his bequest to the Fogg Museum, 1999.
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