A PAIR OF REGENCY SILVER-GILT FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA

MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1819

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A PAIR OF REGENCY SILVER-GILT FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1819
The rockwork base chased with shells, coral, and applied with sea creatures, the stem in the form of a male and female triton standing on a dolphin and blowing a shell that supports a central shell and four candle branches formed as winged, unicorned dolphin heads, the detachable nozzles chased with seaweed, marked on each base, central shell, one standard, and each nozzle
21 in. (53.4 cm.) high; 437 oz. (13,530 gr.) (2)

来源

H.R.H. Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, K.G., P.C., G.C.B. (1763-1827), second son of George III
The Magnificent Silver and Silver-Gilt Plate of His Royal Highness, The Duke of York, Deceased, Christie's, London, 19-22 March, 1827, first day's sale, lots 77 and 78

出版

A. Phillips and J. Sloane, Exhibition catalogue, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt, London, 1997, p. 70, no. 14.

展览

New York, Christie's, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt from the Collection of Audrey Love, September 1997
San Marino, Huntington Art Gallery, November 1998 - January 1999
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2000 - 2003

拍品专文

While the design of these candelabra indicate that they were made under the direction of Kensington Lewis, they are marked by Paul Storr rather than Edward Farrell, maker of the rest of the Duke of York's candelabra. Technically, the presence of Storr's mark indicates only that he was responsible for presenting them to Goldsmiths' Hall for assay and duty upon completion. Perhaps Farrell's workshop could not meet Lewis's numerous orders in 1818, and he subcontracted the casting, assembly, or finishing of these candelabra to Storr, who in turn presented them to the Hall for marking.

The Duke of York auction catalogue included four similar candelabra, and the present pair, having dolphins rather than seahorses, are described as lots 77 and 78 as follows:

MASSIVE SILVER-GILT PLATE
Lot 75 A candelabrum, twenty-one inches high representing a triton seated upon a sea-horse, with reptiles and marine productions; upon the head of the figure is a shell, from which spring the heads of the hydra, forming branches for four lights, weight 213 oz [£92/6/8] Lot 76 A ditto, with a sea-nymph on a sea-horse, the companion; weight 209 oz. 10 dwts. [£91/10/17] Lot 77 A ditto, with a triton upon a dolphin, in other respects similar; weight 218 oz. 10 dwts. [£91/5] Lot 78 A ditto, with a sea-nymph upon a dolphin, the companion; weight 222 oz. 10 dwts. [£95/5]