AFTERNOON SESSION 2:00 PM ENGLISH AND IRISH SILVER (LOTS 186-317) VARIOUS PROPERTIES

A PAIR OF GEORGE V SILVER THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

MARK OF LIONEL ALFRED CRICHTON, LONDON, 1910

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A PAIR OF GEORGE V SILVER THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Mark of Lionel Alfred Crichton, London, 1910
In the style of Paul de Lamerie, each on shaped triangular base cast and chased with scrolls and grapevine, the stems each formed as a Bacchic herm, his arms held aloft and holding a bunch of grapes and supporting a vase-shaped socket, surmounted by three scroll and grapevine branches headed by caryatids, with circular wax-pans, vase-shaped sockets and removable nozzles, each marked on base, central bezel, and each wax-pan, socket and nozzle, also stamped CRICHTON BROS NEW YORK & LONDON
19½in. (49.5cm.) high; 242oz. 10dwt. (7574gr.) (2)

Lot Essay

These candelabra are based on a pair of two-light candelabra by Paul de Lamerie of 1748/48 which were listed as formerly belonging to Messrs. Crichton Bros. in P.A.S. Phillips, Paul de Lamerie: Citizen and Goldsmith of London, 1968, pl. CLIII.

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