An impressive English repoussé brass columnar candlestick, late 17th century, the octagonal fluted and stop fluted stem with a gadrooned knop, on a conforming octagonal domed foot,the underside with initials 'S W M', 45 cm high Provenance: The collection of the Late Geoffrey Harley, Pickwick End, Corsham Further reading: Eloy Koldeweij, The English Candlestick, 1425-1925, pp84-85, for a pair of similar candlesticks. Another similar example is illustrated in Gentle & Feild, Domestic Metalwork, 1640-1820, 1994, p, 129.