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A PAIR OF FINE GEORGE III FOUR-LIGHT CAST CANDELABRA

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A PAIR OF FINE GEORGE III FOUR-LIGHT CAST CANDELABRA
maker's mark of Richard Cooke, London, 1808

Each on spreading circular base and with slender baluster stem, vase-shaped socket and with detachable leaf-capped reeded branches, circular drip-pans, campana-shaped sockets and circular nozzles, the central socket with detachable flame extinguisher finial, applied with bands of foliage, beading and flutes, the base engraved with a coat-of-arms, the sockets and nozzle each with a crest, fully marked, one engraved beneath the base No.1, 75=7, the branches No.1, 117=10, the other No.2, 76=0, the branches No.2, 117=10 - 26½in. (67cm.) high
383ozs. (11,937grs.)

The arms are those of Heathcote quatering Moyer impaling Thornhill for John Heathcote Esq. (1767-1838), of Connington Castle, Co. Huntingdon, son of John Heathcote Esq. by his wife Lydia, daughter and heir of John Moyer Esq., and his wife Mary-Ann Thornhill (d.1854), whom her married in 1799
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