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MARK OF JOHN MORTIMER AND JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1840
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN SILVER NINE-LIGHT TABLE CANDELABRUM CENTERPIECE
MARK OF JOHN MORTIMER AND JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1840
The shaped circular base on four acanthus and shell feet, applied with three coats-of-arms with baron's coronet, applied with four stags, with two tiers of foliate branches with sockets, wax-pans and detachable nozzles, the finial formed as an eagle perched atop a tree, with alternative central bowl with openwork acorn and oak-leaf rim, marked on base, coats-of-arms, coronets, deer, branch sockets, wax-pans, sockets, detachable nozzles. finial and bowl rim
38 ¼ in. (97.2 cm.) high
642 oz. 12 dwt. (19,967 gr.)
The arms are those of Middleton impaling Williams quartering Hamlyn, for Charles Noel, 2nd Baron Barham (1781-1866) and his third wife Arabella (d.1829), daughter of Sir James Hamlyn-Williams Bt., whom he married in 1820.
MARK OF JOHN MORTIMER AND JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1840
The shaped circular base on four acanthus and shell feet, applied with three coats-of-arms with baron's coronet, applied with four stags, with two tiers of foliate branches with sockets, wax-pans and detachable nozzles, the finial formed as an eagle perched atop a tree, with alternative central bowl with openwork acorn and oak-leaf rim, marked on base, coats-of-arms, coronets, deer, branch sockets, wax-pans, sockets, detachable nozzles. finial and bowl rim
38 ¼ in. (97.2 cm.) high
642 oz. 12 dwt. (19,967 gr.)
The arms are those of Middleton impaling Williams quartering Hamlyn, for Charles Noel, 2nd Baron Barham (1781-1866) and his third wife Arabella (d.1829), daughter of Sir James Hamlyn-Williams Bt., whom he married in 1820.
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