A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV SILVER-GILT CANDLESTICKS

MARK OF WILLIAM ELLIOT, LONDON, 1830

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A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV SILVER-GILT CANDLESTICKS
MARK OF WILLIAM ELLIOT, LONDON, 1830
In the rococo taste, each shaped circular base cast with lion's masks, rocaille and flowers, rising to a spiraling baluster stem with removable nozzle, the base and nozzle engraved with monogram LB beneath a Viscountess's coronet, each marked on base and nozzle
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high; 78 oz. (2,429 gr.) (2)

Provenance

Louisa, Viscountess Beresford (d.1851) and then by descent, sold
Christie's, London, 29 November 2007, lot 523
Alastair Dickenson, London

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Lot Essay

Caption:
Louisa, Viscountess Beresford, from The Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Females, Including Beauties of the Courts of George IV and William IV, 1833, Vol II, p. 17

The initials are those of Louisa Beresford (d. 1851) who married secondly William, Viscount Beresford (1768-1854), a hero of the Peninsular War.

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