the base of waisted form, open-worked with a large band of thuluth calligraphy against a ground of interlacing split-palmettes, shoulder and mouth ensuite, cylindrical neck with engraved vegetal designs, keyfret motifs around shoulder and neck, various ownership labels to inside, one reading 'This is the property of Theron J. Damon', with accompanying 1931 exhibition label

Ex-collection Theron J. Damon, on loan to the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, since 1940

Theron J. Damon was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1883, and was educated at Harvard. Following graduation he taught at🐲 Robert College, Istanbul, travelling widely in the region. Before the outbreak of WWI Damon taught at Constantinople College and worked at the American Embassy as courier to Berlin. After the war, he returned to Turkey as executive secretary of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Levant, before joining an American oil company. Damon ran his shop for Near Eastern Art that he had previo๊usly opened in New York until its closure in 1936. Whilst running the shop, he served on the committee of the Worcester Art Museum, and became a member of the American Antiquarian Society. During WWII, Damon accepted an appointment in the Office of War Information, where he specialised in matters of the Near East. He died aged ninety in Weston, Massachusetts, in 1973.

International Exhibition of Persian Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 7 January - 7 March, 1931, no.US 15
The Turks in History, The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1 February - 15 March, 1954

International Studio, September 1930, p.90
Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Persian Art, London, 1931, p.191, G

In generally good overall condition, patination associated with age, various knocks, dents and abrasions, base of neck section partially come away from lower section but stable, as viewed.
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inscriptions

'Happiness and Well-being and Long-life to its owner, as long as the dove coos'  
The rarity of this candlestick lies in its openwork decoration, featuring an intricately carved inscription around the body within scrolling foliate vines. This candlestick belongs to a small corpus of similar Timurid openwork candlesticks including one in the David Collection, Copenhagen, (inv.no.26/1994, Copenhagen 2001, p.326, no.524), and a further closely comparable piece formerly in the Charles Gillot Collection, sold at Christie's, 13 April 2010, lot 78. A further example, of similar design but composed of bronze rather than tinned copper and of a slightly earlier date (twelfth/thirteenth century), is in the Keir Collection (Fehervari 1976, p.85 and pl.34a, no.100).