MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, 1747

Details

A FINE PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER CANDLESTICKS
MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, 1747
Each of shaped-square base, with baluster stem, vase-shaped socket and detachable circular nozzle, cast with shells and pendant foliage, engraved with a coat-of-arms, the nozzles with a crest, marked under bases, also engraved with scratchweights '35=5' and '34=18'
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) high; 68 oz. (2115 gr.) (2)

Provenance

Christie's, 12 December 1983, lot 193.

Literature

The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, no. 96, p. 133
Christopher Hartop, The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680-1760 from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection, 1996, illus. p. 398.

Exhibited

"The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection", Christie's, London, 1989, no. 96

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Savage of Essex and Oxford.

This pair of candlesticks is identical to a pair marked by Nicholas Sprimont of 1746 in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (illustrated in Christopher Hartop, The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680-1760 from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection, 1996, p. 398, fig. 105).

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