LOT 30 (32111) Est R4000 to R8000 – A Graduated pair of Mid 20th Century American Sterling Silver Serpentine Table Candlesticks of Modernist Design, designed by Marian Anderson Noyes (American 1907-2002)

Description

Maker: Towle Silversmiths, Newburyport, Massachusetts established 1882 – present, first issued in 1957, stamped Sterling, lion and T trademark, stamped Filled Reinforced, each plain tulip-shaped candle nozzle with everted and flared rim, supported on a hollow-cast sinuous downswept tubular stem, terminating in an ebonite tipped terminal (Total weighable mass: 516g) (Candlestick 1: 20.8 x 29 x 16.5cm) (Candlestick 2: 20 x 26 x 13cm) Literature: Stern, J. Modernism in American Silver – 20th Century Design, p. 200-201 illustrates another example housed in the Permanent Collection of the Dallas Museum of Art