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Lot Essay
One of the crests is that of the Marquesses of Buckingham
The model of the present candlesticks was also used by Paul de Lamerie, for two pairs of candlesticks made in 1748 (two are in the Ashmolean Museum; two are in the Gans Collection). Another pair dating to the same year as the present lot, by Frederick Kandler, is also in the Ashmolean Museum. Lamerie, like many Huguenot silversmiths, was most likely inspired by an engraved French design, such as those by Jean Le Pautre (1618-1682) or Daniel Marot (c.1663-1752). Robert Tyrill's connection to Lamerie was probably via his partnership with Bennett Bradshaw, one of Lamerie's former apprentices. Tyrill and Bradshaw shared premises from 1737 until at least 1742 (see: Paul de Lamerie, At the Sign of the Golden Ball, 1990, p. 168, and Culme, English Silver: The Jerome and Rita Gans Collection, Addendum, 1999, pp. 36-41).
The model of the present candlesticks was also used by Paul de Lamerie, for two pairs of candlesticks made in 1748 (two are in the Ashmolean Museum; two are in the Gans Collection). Another pair dating to the same year as the present lot, by Frederick Kandler, is also in the Ashmolean Museum. Lamerie, like many Huguenot silversmiths, was most likely inspired by an engraved French design, such as those by Jean Le Pautre (1618-1682) or Daniel Marot (c.1663-1752). Robert Tyrill's connection to Lamerie was probably via his partnership with Bennett Bradshaw, one of Lamerie's former apprentices. Tyrill and Bradshaw shared premises from 1737 until at least 1742 (see: Paul de Lamerie, At the Sign of the Golden Ball, 1990, p. 168, and Culme, English Silver: The Jerome and Rita Gans Collection, Addendum, 1999, pp. 36-41).