Important Design: from Noguchi to Lalanne

Important Design: from Noguchi to Lalanne

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Property from a California Collector

Robert Riddle Jarvie

Pair of "Beta" Candlesticks

Auction Closed

May 25, 06:32 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a California Collector

Robert Riddle Jarvie

Pair of "Beta" Candlesticks


circa 1902

together with the original bobeches

patinated copper

each impressed Jarvie/B

12 1/2 in. (31.7 cm) high each

Private Collection, Mandeville, Louisiana, circa 1904
Thence by descent
Acquired from the above by the present owner
The International Studio, vol. 25, March-June 1905, ad. II (for a period advertisement of the model)
Robert Judson Clark, ed., The Arts and Crafts Movement in America 1876-1916, exh. cat., The Art Museum, Princeton University and The Art Institute of Chicago, 1972, p. 76, fig. 100
Sharon S. Darling, Chicago Metalsmiths, Chicago, 1977, p. 57, cat. no. 72
Richard Guy Wilson, From Architecture to Object: Masterworks of the American Arts & Crafts Movement, New York, 1989, p. 101
Leslie Greene Bowman, American Arts and Crafts: Virtue in Design, Los Angeles, 1990, p. 107
Thomas K. Maher, The Jarvie Shop: The Candlesticks and Metalwork of Robert R. Jarvie, Philmont, NY, 1997, front cover and p. 32
Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf, Makers: A History of American Studio Craft, Chapel Hill, NC, 2010, p. 70 (for an example of the model in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art)