Lot 186
186
Various Properties
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CANDLESTICKS, each on circular slightly spreading base with reed-and-tie border and with baluster stem formed as three female herms hung with drapery and berried foliage and with spool-shaped socket and detachable circular nozzle, the bases and nozzles cast and chased with foliage, the bases engraved with three crests, one beneath Viscounts coronet, each within oval cartouche, the nozzles engraved with two crests, by John Parker and Edward Wakelin, 1775

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CANDLESTICKS, each on circular slightly spreading base with reed-and-tie border and with baluster stem formed as three female herms hung with drapery and berried foliage and with spool-shaped socket and detachable circular nozzle, the bases and nozzles cast and chased with foliage, the bases engraved with three crests, one beneath Viscounts coronet, each within oval cartouche, the nozzles engraved with two crests, by John Parker and Edward Wakelin, 1775
12½in. (32cm.) high
(71ozs.)

The crest beneath the coronet is that of Molesworth for Viscount Molesworth, probably for Richard Nassau, the 4th Viscount (1748-1793) (3)

Lot Essay

These unusual candlesticks are designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' manner as popularised by Jean-Charles Delafosse (1734-1789) and published in his Nouvelle Iconologie Historique, 1768. Robert-Joseph Auguste used the model on several occasions. These include candlesticks made for Count Creutz when Swedish Ambassador in Paris from 1775 to 1776, These are now in the Royal Palace, Stockholm. Others include a set of four candelabra made for Hing George II now in the J. P. Getty Museum, Malibu

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