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Copies of Lamerie originals made for Sir Robert Walpole, now in the Glibert Collection, Los Angeles County of Art
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A PAIR OF ELIZABETH II SILVER FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
LONDON, 1970, MAKER'S MARK OF D. & J. WELLBY
In the style of Paul de Lamerie; each on a square base with canted corners cast and chased with flowers, the central dome chased with a calyx of foliage, rising to a squared baluster stem chased with scale pattern and with four shells at the corners, surmounted by a vase-shaped socket chased with spiralling leaves, the removable branches with a central squared finial and four leaf-clad double scroll candelarms each supporting a shaped circular wax pan applied with rocaille and a vase shaped socket, marked on bases, branches, wax pans and sockets--13 in. (33 cm.) high
(184 oz. 10 dwt.) (2)
LONDON, 1970, MAKER'S MARK OF D. & J. WELLBY
In the style of Paul de Lamerie; each on a square base with canted corners cast and chased with flowers, the central dome chased with a calyx of foliage, rising to a squared baluster stem chased with scale pattern and with four shells at the corners, surmounted by a vase-shaped socket chased with spiralling leaves, the removable branches with a central squared finial and four leaf-clad double scroll candelarms each supporting a shaped circular wax pan applied with rocaille and a vase shaped socket, marked on bases, branches, wax pans and sockets--13 in. (33 cm.) high
(184 oz. 10 dwt.) (2)