A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA

Lot 38
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Lot 38 | A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
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£ 30 000 – 50 000
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA

MARK OF RICHARD COOKE, LONDON, 1808

Each on spreading circular base with baluster stem and vase shaped socket cast with a frieze of laurel leaves, the detachable leaf-capped reeded branches with gadrooned drip-pans, partly-fluted campana shaped sockets and gadrooned nozzles, the central socket with detachable flame finial, the base later engraved with a coat-of-arms, the sockets, nozzles and finial each with a crest, marked on foot-rims, branches' sleeves, socket, nozzles and finals, one engraved beneath the base No 1 75=7, the branches No 1 117=10, the other No 2 76=0, the branches No 2 117=10

261/2 in. (67.3 cm.) high

383 ozs. (11,921 gr.)

The arms are those of Heathcote quartering Moyer impaling Thornhill for John Heathcote (1767-1838), of Conington Castle, co. Huntingdon, son of John Heathcote by his wife Lydia, daughter and heir of John Moyer, and his wife Mary-Ann Thornhill (d.1854), whom he married in 1799.





Provenance

John Heathcote (1767-1838), of Conington Castle, co. Huntingdon.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 May 1994 , lot 186.



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