Lot 636
636
A GEORGE IV AND A WILLIAM IV SILVER FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
A GEORGE IV AND A WILLIAM IV SILVER FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA

ONE MARK OF PHILIP RUNDELL, LONDON, 1821 AND ONE MARK OF WILLIAM BATEMAN, RETAILED BY RUNDELL, BRIDGE AND RUNDELL

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A GEORGE IV AND A WILLIAM IV SILVER FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
ONE MARK OF PHILIP RUNDELL, LONDON, 1821 AND ONE MARK OF WILLIAM BATEMAN, RETAILED BY RUNDELL, BRIDGE AND RUNDELL
On shaped triangular base on three cast acanthus foliage feet, with baluster stem cast and chased with acanthus foliage, with three detachable rosette and acanthus foliage branches each terminating in a campana shaped socket with nozzle, with similar central light, the bases each engraved with a coat-of-arms below a marquess' coronet, marked on base, stem, branches, nozzles, sockets, applied ornament and one foliage calys, the bases of one further stamped 'Rundell Bridge et Rundell Aurifices Regis Londini', the base of the other stamped 'Rundell Bridge et Co Aurifices Reginæ Londini'
29 1/8 in. (74 cm.) high
411 oz. 18 dwt. (12,812 gr.)
The arms are those of Petty quartering FitzMaurice for Henry, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780-1863).
Provenance
with Argenteus, London, March 2008.

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Lot Essay

The inspiration for the base and stem on the present candelabra derives from Ancient Roman candelabra as engraved by G. B. Piransi (1720-1778) and published in England in 1811 in H. Moser's A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, Paterae, Tripods Candelabra, Sarcophagi, &c. Other examples of the same design include a pair of candelabra made for Thomas, 3rd Baron Foley, (T. Schroder, The Gilbert Collection of Gold and Silver, Los Angeles, 1988, pp. 419-421, no. 112) and a pair made for Sir Richard Sutton 2nd Bt., (Christies, London, 5 July 2000, lot 4)

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