There is still great conjecture regarding the so-called 'Surrey Enamels', to date nobody has produced any significant information as to their actual place of manufacture. The consensus of opinion suggests that they were indeed produced in the southern part of the country, and due to their similarities with enamel work being executed on the continent at the same time, they may have been created in a workshop/s established by expatriate German or Italian craftsmen, using specially imported materials. One can be certain however that period examples of the fine quality inherent in the present candlestick are extremely rare. There was supposedly a resurgance of interest in these enamels in the latter part of the 19th century, when copies of candlesticks and andirons were produced, however these pieces bare no comparison to period examples, being very crude and awkward in their casting, and often displaying many more varied colours of enamels than were known to be produced.
The discrepency in period related by the inscription to the silver label is probably due to the misconception in the 19th century that these pieces were of a much earlier period

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Highlights of the Untermeyer Collection of English and Continental Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Arts 1977. Page 182, a candlestick with an almost identical stem is illustrated fig.336.

Charle's Beard, Surrey Enamels, Connoisseur, October 1931.