拍品 252
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
THE PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK COLLECTOR
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

MARK OF MATTHEW BOULTON, BIRMINGHAM, 1806, THE BRANCHES 1808

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Mark of Matthew Boulton, Birmingham, 1806, the branches 1808
Each on spreading circular base, rising to a tapering stem and part-fluted campana-form socket, the two reeded scroll branches with campana-form sockets, with circular leaf-clad nozzles and waxpans, each base engraved with armorials, the waxpans engraved with a crest, each marked on base, branch, central standard and nozzles, the bases stamped with scratchweights 19:2 and 19:9, two waxpans 1806
23in. (58.5cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

The arms are those of Kinnaird impaling those of Fitzgerald, as borne by Charles, 8th Baron Kinnaird (1780-1826), of Perthshire. In 1805 he succeeded his father, and in 1806 he married Lady Olivia Letitia Catherine Fitzgerald, youngest daughter of the 2nd Duke of Leinster. He built Rossie Priory at Inchture, and filled it with a notable collection of 18th-century pictures.