TWO PAIRS OF GEORGE II SILVER CANDLESTICKS

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08.02.2024 10:30UTC +01:00
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Lot 29 | TWO PAIRS OF GEORGE II SILVER CANDLESTICKS
TWO PAIRS OF GEORGE II SILVER CANDLESTICKS

MARK OF WILLIAM GOULD, LONDON, TWO 1747 AND TWO 1748

Each on shaped square base, with baluster stem, spool shaped socket and detachable nozzles, the earlier pair faintly engraved on the base and nozzles with a crest, the base rim with later inscription 'Caroline G', the later pair each engraved with a coat-of-arms in rococo cartouche, mark on bases, two sockets and one nozzle

8 in. (20.5 cm.) high

61 oz. 19 dwt. (1,927 gr.)

The arms are those of Lee impaling Stonhouse, for Robert Lee (1706-1776), later 4th Earl of Lichfield and his wife Catherine (1708-1754), daughter of Sir John Stonhouse, 3rd Bt. (d.1733), whom he married in 1745. He was the eleventh child, but second surviving son of Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield (1663-1716) and his wife Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, daughter of Charles II, King of Great Britain and his mistress Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland.





Provenance

The 1747 pair Robert Lee (1706-1776), later 4th Earl of Lichfield.

Both pairs Sir William Miles Aykroyd, 3rd Bt. (1923-2007), of Buckland Newton Place, Dorset, then by descent.
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