拍品專文
The arms are those of Hart, Kilderry, co. Donegal, impaling those of another. The initials are those of George D. Widener.
Despite their rococo movement, these candlesticks would appear to owe more to seventeenth century prototypes from the workshop of Anthony Nelme (see footnote to lot 362) than to George Michael Moser's design for a candlestick in the Victoria & Albert Museum, which is in turn inspired by Bernini's Apollo and Daphne. Candelabra of similar form to the present examples were produced by Paul de Lamerie, including a pair of 1748 formerly in the collection of the Earl of Liverpool and subsequently in the collection of Sir George Dowty, sold in these Rooms, April 22, 1993, lot 61; another pair as well as a set of four matching candlesticks by Charles Frederick Kandler, of the same year are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and a pair with bearded male figures made for Admiral Anson in 1747 is in the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. The caryatid form was used by other silversmiths of the period such as William Cafe, and as late as 1758 by Simon le Sage for the set of twelve candelabra he supplied the Jewel House for the Earl of Bristol, now at Ickworth, Suffolk.
Despite their rococo movement, these candlesticks would appear to owe more to seventeenth century prototypes from the workshop of Anthony Nelme (see footnote to lot 362) than to George Michael Moser's design for a candlestick in the Victoria & Albert Museum, which is in turn inspired by Bernini's Apollo and Daphne. Candelabra of similar form to the present examples were produced by Paul de Lamerie, including a pair of 1748 formerly in the collection of the Earl of Liverpool and subsequently in the collection of Sir George Dowty, sold in these Rooms, April 22, 1993, lot 61; another pair as well as a set of four matching candlesticks by Charles Frederick Kandler, of the same year are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and a pair with bearded male figures made for Admiral Anson in 1747 is in the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. The caryatid form was used by other silversmiths of the period such as William Cafe, and as late as 1758 by Simon le Sage for the set of twelve candelabra he supplied the Jewel House for the Earl of Bristol, now at Ickworth, Suffolk.