Rosewood Candelabra with Silver Petals

Built around rosewood arms with a central silver container for flowers, this two-armed candelabra reads as sculpture for the table, the dark wood set against silver half-circles inset just below the base of the vessel. It belongs to the third design period, 1951 to 1967, the later phase of Spratling's career after the early workshop years.

The pairing of rosewood and silver is a recurring Spratling combination, the warmth of the wood balanced against the cool metal and the geometry of the inset half-circles. Combining a candelabra with a flower container in one object is the kind of useful-sculptural form the later workshop favored.

Later holloware of this ambition is collected as evidence of how Spratling's design sense matured beyond the first-period jewelry, and a rosewood-and-silver candelabra is a substantial example of that work.