FOUR GEORGE III SILVER CANDLESTICKS

Lot 338
09.04.2025 11:00UTC +00:00
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£ 3 276
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 338 | FOUR GEORGE III SILVER CANDLESTICKS
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£ 3 000 – 5 000
Each on sextafoil base cast with shells and anthemion rising to a knopped and fluted stems and spool shaped socket, with detachable conforming nozzle, later engraved on socket with a coat-of-arms and crest, marked underneath and on sockets, one engraved underneath with scratchweight 42:16
10 in. (25.5 cm.) high
82 oz. 7 dwt. (2,562 gr.)
The arms are those of Guest impaling Grosvenor for Thomas Merthyr Guest (1838-1904) of Inward House, Somerset, and his wife Lady Theodora Grosvenor, daughter of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, whom he married in 1877.
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