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A SET OF FOUR FINE GEORGE III SILVER CANDLESTICKS
LONDON, 1806, MAKER'S MARK OF THOMAS PITTS II
In the Rococo style, each on shaped circular spreading foot, elaborately cast and chased with a lizard, bee, beetle or a snail amid elaborate sweeping acanthus scrolls, foliate scrolls, flowerheads, and rocaille on a matted ground, rising to a knopped baluster stem with scrolls forming swirling panels enclosing masks and flowers below rocaille, the baluster socket with similar foliate scroll and rocaille decoration and engraved with two crests and mottos and a coronet, the deep removable nozzle with palmette and flute decoration below elaborate rocaille and flower rims and with similar engraving, marked on bases and nozzles--10 3/4in. (27.2cm.) high
(173 oz. 10 dwt.) (4)
