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    Sale 9242

    Important Silver, Objects of Vertu and Russian Works of Art

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    20 October 1999

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    Lot 254

    A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER CANDLESTICKS WITH PAIR OF SHEFFIELD-PLATED THREE-LIGHT BRANCHES

    MAKER'S MARK OF MATTHEW BOULTON, BIRMINGHAM, 1807

    Price realised

    USD 5,175

    Estimate

    USD 4,000 - USD 6,000

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    A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER CANDLESTICKS WITH PAIR OF SHEFFIELD-PLATED THREE-LIGHT BRANCHES
    Maker's mark of Matthew Boulton, Birmingham, 1807
    Each on circular wood-backed base with bands of foliage and gadrooning, the tapering cylindrical stem with similar decoration, the campana-form socket with anthemion, the Sheffield-plated removable branch with two spiralling reeded candelarms, with part-fluted campana-form sockets and circular nozzle, the central socket with removable flame finial, one side of base and central socket engraved with a crest, marked on bases and branches; also struck with weights 18:10 and 18:4
    21in. (52cm.) high
    Boulton, Matthew (2)

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