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Sold by Order of the Executors of THE LATE LADY GLADWYN

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel and thence by descent

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859), the celebrated Victorian engineer, was the son of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849). The latter was himself a distinguished inventor and engineer of French extraction. He had been a naval officer before the Revolution, leaving in 1792 because of his royalist views. He arrived in England in 1799 having spent the intervening years in America. They were both friends of Pugin and his father, and Isambard, who collected medieval and Renaissance antiquities and modern historical paintings, was a client of the well-known antique dealer John Webb of Old Bond Street who helped him to furnish a Shakespeare Room (C. Wainwright, The Romantic Interior, London, 1989, p.45)

Lot Essay

The C couronné poinçon was in use between March 1745 and February 1749
These candlesticks are of the same model as the stems of a pair of candelabra from the Wrightsman Collection (F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, Metropolitan Museum, 1966, vol. II, nos. 161A and B). The branches are struck with the C couronné poinçon.
A set of four candlesticks of this model was sold Sotheby's, New York, 4 May 1985, lot 180.

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