A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CANDLESTICKS

MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1809, RETAILED BY RUNDELL, BRIDGE AND RUNDELL

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A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CANDLESTICKS
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1809, RETAILED BY RUNDELL, BRIDGE AND RUNDELL
Each on slightly domed circular foot chased with acanthus borders, the tapering cylindrical stem with stylised foliage borders, with urn-shaped partly-fluted socket with basketweave sides, and detachable circular nozzle with egg-and-dart border, marked on base and nozzles, the bases of two further engraved 'RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS ET PRINCIPE WALLIæ LONDINI FECERUNT'
13¼ in. (33.5 cm.) high
163 oz. (5,079 gr.) (4)

来源

Captain Codrington Gwynne Reid Walker (d.1963) of Ruckley Grange
Capt. C. G. Reid Walker. T.D., J.P., removed from Ruckley Grange, Shifnal, Salop; Christie's, London, 18 March 1959, lot 49 (£520 to Rayman).

出版

M. Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, Oxford, 1985, p. 244, no. 2.

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拍品专文

Other sets of this distinctive model of candlestick, with the same bold basketweave socket are known. They include a set of four silver examples from the collection of a European Nobleman (Christie's, London, 12 June 2002, lot 42) and two further silver-gilts sets of four made for Charles, 1st Earl of Yarborough (1781-1846) and his wife Henrietta Anna Maria Charlotte, daughter of the Hon. John Bridgeman Simpson, whom he married in 1806 (Sotheby's, London, 15 October 1970, lots 72 and 73).