THE CANDLESTICKS AND NOZZLES, MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1840

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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN SILVER CANDLESTICKS WITH SILVER-PLATED FOUR-LIGHT BRANCHES
THE CANDLESTICKS AND NOZZLES, MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1840
The candlesticks, each similar, baluster form on shaped circular platform base on four broad foliate scroll feet, the bases elaborately cast and chased with rocaille and foliate motifs, one stem formed as Bacchus bearing a putto on his shoulders, accompanied by a goat, the other with a Bacchante bearing a putto and with a lioness reaching up to her, each holding aloft an urn-shaped socket cast with basketweave grapevines, the detachable plated four-light foliate scroll branches with four urn-shaped vine sockets and attached drip-pans, with detachable plain circular silver nozzles, marked on bases and nozzles
28 in. (71 cm.) high overall
The candlesticks and nozzles: 358 oz. (11,145 g.) (2)

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VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Sale room notice

The branches have tested as silver and are not silver-plated as stated in the catalogue; however, they are unmarked.

Lot Essay

The candlesticks, standing on altar-tripod plinths, celebrate the Vintage or Feast of Bacchus with basket-bearing youths supported on the shoulders of a bacchante and her companion, while attended by a Bacchic leopard and ram. The model for the caryatic figures derives from a Louis Quatorze pattern attributed to Corneille van Clève (d.1732) and executed by the goldsmith Nicolas de Launay in 1702 for Versailles (P.Hughes, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Furniture, London, III, 1996, nos. 232-233).

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