Pair of candlesticks

Paul de Lamerie

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The design of these candlesticks follows a conventional model. This pair, however, part of a set of six, is nearly twice the size and weight of a typical example. They were made for a club of High Tory aristocrats called the Honorable Board of Loyal Brotherhood, whose members met for boisterous evenings of wine and conversation.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art