Thomas Heming
( 1795 )
A Pair George III Candlesticks
Thomas Heming
( 1795 )
A Pair George III Candlesticks
London, 1767
Maker’s mark of Thomas Heming
Height: 27.9 cm, 11 in
Weight: 1,846 g, 59.30 total troy oz.
In the Louis XVI Style, the candlesticks on stepped shaped circular bases rising to fluted wells. The stems with twisted spiralling flutes and baluster in form. The capitals also fluted to balance the design perfectly.
Engraved No. 1 & No. 2 respectively and with their scratch weight to the underside.
The son of a Midlands merchant, Thomas Heming was apprenticed to Edmund Bodington on March 7, 1738, and turned over on the same day to the Huguenot goldsmith Peter Archambo. He registered his first mark in June 1745; in 1760 he was appointed principal goldsmith to King George III, in which capacity he was responsible for supplying regalia and plate required for the coronation. Heming held this appointment until 1782, when he was ousted after an investigation into his apparently excessive charges. Grimwade (1976, p. 543) comments that "some of his earlier surviving pieces in the Royal collection show a French delicacy of taste and refinement of execution which is unquestionably inherited from his master Archambo." Among Heming's outstanding works are a silver-gilt toilet service made for Queen Caroline of Denmark in 1766 (Dankse Kunstidustrimuseum, Copenhagen; Hernmarck 1977, pl. 727) and a wine cistern of 1770, made for Speaker Brownlow (Belton House, Lincolnshire; Grimwade 1974, pl. 12).
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