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A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER FIGURAL CANDLESTICKS WITH TWO LIGHT BRANCHES
STERLING STANDARD, LONDON, 1748, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE (HARE, NO. 5), ONE BRANCH WITH DATE LETTER FOR 1736, THE OTHER UNMARKED
Formed as male and female caryatids, on shaped tiriangular bases boldly cast and chased with swirling scrolls and flowerheads, rising to stems formed as c-scrolls, cast and chased with foliage, the figures with on hand clutching a graland of flowers which trails over their shoulder, the other hand holding aloft a waisted socket chased with swirling foliage and scrolls, with removable shaped circular nozzles chased with foliage alternating with two-light branches each formed of two foliate scroll arms terminating in nude female figures supporting circular wax pans chased with a band of foliage and waisted sockets cast and chased with stylized masks and scrolls, the central standards issuing from rocaille, with knops chased with ovolo on a matted ground and surmounted by flame-form finials, fully marked under bases of candlesticks, central sleeve of one branch struck with lion passant, leopard's head and date letter for 1736, all four wax pans struck with lion passant, engraved under the bases and on branches with the initial J --overall height 12 3/4in. (32.4cm.), height as candlesticks 17in (42.1cm.)
(159oz. 18dwt.) (2)
STERLING STANDARD, LONDON, 1748, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE (HARE, NO. 5), ONE BRANCH WITH DATE LETTER FOR 1736, THE OTHER UNMARKED
Formed as male and female caryatids, on shaped tiriangular bases boldly cast and chased with swirling scrolls and flowerheads, rising to stems formed as c-scrolls, cast and chased with foliage, the figures with on hand clutching a graland of flowers which trails over their shoulder, the other hand holding aloft a waisted socket chased with swirling foliage and scrolls, with removable shaped circular nozzles chased with foliage alternating with two-light branches each formed of two foliate scroll arms terminating in nude female figures supporting circular wax pans chased with a band of foliage and waisted sockets cast and chased with stylized masks and scrolls, the central standards issuing from rocaille, with knops chased with ovolo on a matted ground and surmounted by flame-form finials, fully marked under bases of candlesticks, central sleeve of one branch struck with lion passant, leopard's head and date letter for 1736, all four wax pans struck with lion passant, engraved under the bases and on branches with the initial J --overall height 12 3/4in. (32.4cm.), height as candlesticks 17in (42.1cm.)
(159oz. 18dwt.) (2)
Literature
Schroder, 1983, p. 21, no. 15
Hare, p. 168, no. 115
Hare, p. 168, no. 115
Exhibited
Cheltenham, 1983, no. 15
London, 1990, no. 115
London, 1990, no. 115
Engraved
The arms are those of Jenkinson, probably for Charles, 3rd son of Sir Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Bt., a Colonel of the Horse Guards. Born in 1693, he married Amarantha, daughter and sole heiress of Wolfram Cornewall, R.N.. He died in June, 1750. His son, also Charles, was born in 1729. A prominent politician, he was created Baron Hawkesbury in 1786 and Earl of Liverpool in 1796. Early in his career in the House of Commons, on February 7, 1770, "Tommy" Townsend, a Rockingham Whig, remarked to him that his "pompous manner" did not become "a gentleman risen from the situation he has done." Jenkinson replied, "My rise is from as old a family as his own. I have risen by industry, by attention to duty and by honourable means I could devise." Whereupon Sir Walter Blackett, an old Tory, interposed "Every man carries his honour in his own hand. Origin is nothing; it shall never have any weight with me." [Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Acession of George III, vol. III, p. 15],. Lord Liverpool's son, Robert, who succeeded to the Earldom in 1827, was Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827.