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An identical set of candlesticks by Paul Crespin is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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A SET OF FOUR FINE GEORGE II SILVER CANDLESTICKS
MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN CAFE, LONDON, 1750
In Regence style, each on spreading shaped circular base chased with shells, ovolo and paterae, below a reeded shoulder, rising to a facetted baluster stem chased with similar rocaille above a reeded leaf-clad knop and below a baluster socket chased with foliate paterae, with ovolo rim and removable nozzle with ovolo decoration, the bases and one nozzle engraved with a crest, marked under bases and one nozzle--10in.(25.5cm.) high
(128oz., 3984gr.) (4)
MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN CAFE, LONDON, 1750
In Regence style, each on spreading shaped circular base chased with shells, ovolo and paterae, below a reeded shoulder, rising to a facetted baluster stem chased with similar rocaille above a reeded leaf-clad knop and below a baluster socket chased with foliate paterae, with ovolo rim and removable nozzle with ovolo decoration, the bases and one nozzle engraved with a crest, marked under bases and one nozzle--10in.(25.5cm.) high
(128oz., 3984gr.) (4)