About the Artwork
Candlesticks
between 1890 and 1900
Goodnow and Jenks
1887-1905
American
Unknown
Sterling silver
Overall (each): 9 1/4 × 3 5/8 × 3 5/8 inches (23.5 × 9.2 × 9.2 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Charles Theron Van Dusen in memory of Charles Theron Van Dusen
1984.7
Public Domain
Markings
Stamped, on bottom: G [image of a turtle] J | STERLING 10 On bottom of removable drip pan: STERLING
Provenance
Gebelein Silversmiths (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
Nancy C. Moore. 1984-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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McClinton, K. M. Collecting American Nineteenth-Century Silver. New York, 1968, p. 101 (ill).
Hood, G. American Silver. New York, 1971, p. 241 (ill).
The Quest for Unity: American Art between World's Fairs, 1877-1893. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1983, p. 178, no. 97.
Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report (1984): p. 14 (fig. 12).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Goodnow and Jenks, Candlesticks, between 1890 and 1900, sterling silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Charles Theron Van Dusen in memory of Charles Theron Van Dusen, 1984.7.
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