A George IV silver-gilt five-light candelabrum

MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1823

Details

A George IV silver-gilt five-light candelabrum
maker's mark of Paul Storr, London, 1823
On spreading hexafoil base cast and chased with lions' masks, scrolls and foliage on a scalework ground, with baluster stem similarly chased with foliate scrolls and shells, the detachable branches cast and applied with leaves and flowerheads and with detachable drip-pans, sockets and nozzles and with similar central finial, the stem later engraved with a coat-of-arms, the nozzles each later engraved with three crests, each beneath a Marquess' coronet, marked on base, branches, drip-pans, sockets and nozzles and with scratch weight 226-15
25½in. (64.5cm.) high
228ozs. (7,120grs.)

The arms are those of Hastings quartering Rawdon with Campbell quartering another for Flora, Dowager Marchioness of Hastings and Countess of Loudoun in her own right (d.1840), widow of Francis, 2nd Earl and 1st Marquess of Hastings (1754-1836) to whom she was married in 1804.

Provenance

Flora, Marchioness of Hastings and Countess of Loudoun (d.1840)
Thence by decent to her second daughter Sophia Fredericka Christina, Marchioness of Bute (d.1859), 2nd wife of John, 2nd Marquess of Bute (1793-1848).

Lot Essay

In the same year, Storr produced a suite of six candelabra, comprising a pair of four-light candelabra and a set of four three-light candelabra, which are closely related to the present example. These were sold from the collection of the Duke of Palmella, Christie's Geneva, 27 April 1976, lots 193 and 194 and are now in the Al-Tajir Collection and were exhibited 'The Glory of the Goldsmith', Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1990, no. 156.

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