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TWO GEORGIAN SILVER FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA

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TWO GEORGIAN SILVER FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
ONE MAKER'S MARK OF J.W. STORY AND WILLIAM ELLIOTT, LONDON, 1812, THE OTHER MAKER'S MARK EW, FOR WILLIAM ELLIOT, 1823

The shaped circular spreading bases elaborately chased with scrolls foliage and animal masks on a matted ground, rising to a knopped and elaborately chased stem of flutes, ovolo, foliage, animal masks and an eagle, each with three foliate scroll branches, circular drip-pans, baluster sockets and removable shaped circular nozzles, the central standards surmounted by a removable eagle with wings spread, fully marked, one set of branches maker's mark of William Pitts--21in. (53.5cm.)
(404oz., 12557gr.) (2)

Lot Essay

The complex design of these candelabra is of particular interest as it incorporates revived Baroque and Rococo elements. A similar pair of candelabra of 1815 is illustrated in Michael Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, 1985, p. 247.