A George IV silver four-light candelabrum centrepiece

MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1822

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A George IV silver four-light candelabrum centrepiece
maker's mark of Paul Storr, London, 1822
The shaped square plinth on four shell, scroll and acanthus foliage feet and applied with cast fruiting vine decoration and chased with berried laurel borders, the stem formed as acanthus foliage and applied with the figures of Bacchus, a bacchante, a leaping goat and kid and a putto astride a leopard, the stem terminating in four detachable leaf-capped scroll branches each terminating in a socket formed as an antique Roman lamp and with detachable fluted circular nozzle, with central detachable shaped circular dish on acanthus foliage stem, cast and chased with berried ivy on a matted ground and with acanthus rim, marked on base, figures, applied ornament, three branches, sockets and nozzles, one branch and the central dish apparently unmarked
29in. (75cm.) high
637ozs. (19,833gr.)

Sale room notice

The provenance for this lot should read:
Lady Labouchere
The Collection of Lillian and Morrie Moss
David Orgel

Illustrated in the catalogue of the Moss Collection, pl.39

Lot Essay

The base, in the form of an 'altar' plinth supports a leopard-riding youth who is guided by a bacchante and Bacchus reclining on a couch. Its foliated candelabrum derives from a Roman candelabrum form popularised in the early 19th century by the engravings, after G. B. Piranesi, published by Henry Moser in A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, Paterae, Tripods, Candelabra Sarcophagi, &c., London, 1811, pl.92.

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