拍品 742
742
A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER CANDLESTICKS WITH PLATED FOUR LIGHT CANDLEARMS
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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER CANDLESTICKS WITH PLATED FOUR LIGHT CANDLEARMS

THE CANDLESTICKS WITH THE MARK OF MATTHEW BOULTON & PLATE CO., BIRMINGHAM, 1820

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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER CANDLESTICKS WITH PLATED FOUR LIGHT CANDLEARMS
THE CANDLESTICKS WITH THE MARK OF MATTHEW BOULTON & PLATE CO., BIRMINGHAM, 1820
The sticks each with a domed circular base with a leaf and gadroon motif band, the tapering stems with an engraved coat-of-arms, with a conforming sconce and a detachable silver nozzle, the detachable candlearm with three reeded arms, each terminating in a sconce, later adapted and converted for electricity - 25in. (63.5cm.) high, the candlesticks 14½in. (36.8cm.) high (2)
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Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), the son of a prosperous button and buckle manufacturer, founded his Soho Manufactury in 1761 on the outskirts of Birmingham. Working in partnership with John Fothergill by 1762 the firm produced a wide variety of objects in many types of metal, including silver. It was the opening of the assay office at Birmingham, partly down to the efforts of Boulton, in 1773 that stimulated the production at Soho. In order to compete with the London silversmiths of the time Boulton looked to the work of great architects like Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers and James Stuart for inspiration for his designs.