Property of a MID-WESTERN ESTATE
A PAIR OF REGENCY SILVER CANDELABRA

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A PAIR OF REGENCY SILVER CANDELABRA
MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1815

Each on spreading circular base, with ovolo and dart band and diaperwork with shells at intervals, and with everted flutes above, rising to a tapering square stem with coin-molding and reeded corners headed by acanthus and shells, the three foliate-clad scroll branches issuing from a campana-form fluted socket with diaperwork, each with circular wax-pans with ovolo border and part-fluted vase form socket with stiff leaves, the removable nozzles each with ovolo rim, the similar campana-form central standard with removable bud finial, the wax-pans and nozzles engraved with a crest, fully marked, one later central standard nozzle unmarked
24½in. (62.2cm.) high
(339oz., 10571gr.) (2)

Lot Essay

A pair of candelabra of 1807 with similatr stems was formerly in the collection of the Dukes of Bedford and sold by Christie's, London, in 1950 (see Penzer, Paul Storr, 1771-1844, Silversmith and Goldsmith, London, 1954, plate XXIV.