A George III Old Sheffield Plate four-light candelabra

UNMARKED, ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHEW BOULTON, CIRCA 1790

Details

A George III Old Sheffield Plate four-light candelabra
unmarked, attributed to Matthew Boulton, circa 1790
On four ball feet and stepped square base, with fluted column stem and corinthian capital socket, with four detachable reeded scroll branches each terminating in plain circular drip-pan and vase-shaped socket with detachable plain circular nozzle, with central pineapple finial, the base engraved with a crest within motto
30in. (76cm.) high
The crest is that of Vernon probably for Henry Vernon Esq., (1748-1814) of Hilton Park

Provenance

Probably Henry Vernon (1748-1814) and thence by descent to his son Frederick William Thomas Vernon Wentworth and thence by descent to
Mrs A. C. Vernon Wentworth, (+) Phillips, House Sale, Blackheath Mansion, 24 May 1994

Lot Essay

The design for this candelabra is illustrated in E. Delieb and M. Roberts, The Great Silver Manufactory, Matthew Boulton & the Birmingham Silversmiths, 1760-1790, London, 1971, p. 134 as one of the drawings from the Soho Pattern Books, by Matthew Boulton's draughtsman Hooker after the designs by Robert Adam, John Flaxman and James Wyatt

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