A SET OF FOUR GEORGE II SILVER TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA

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Лот 33 | A SET OF FOUR GEORGE II SILVER TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA
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A SET OF FOUR GEORGE II SILVER TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA

MARK OF GEORGE WICKES, LONDON, 1733

Each on a square base with incurved angles, cast and chased with shells and foliage, the octagonal baluster stems chased with panels of strapwork and masks, with detachable vase-shaped sockets, each with a pair of two-light branches of scroll form with female masks supporting the detachable circular drip-pans and detachable nozzle, the branches each with central Bacchic pinecone finial, the sockets removable to receive the screw-in branches, the bases each engraved with a crest with earl's coronet above, marked under bases and numbered 1-4 under bases and numbered 1-4 on stems of branches, the branches, drip-pans and nozzles unmarked

141/2 in. (36.8 cm.) high

307 oz. (9,548 gr.)

The crest and coronet are those of Fitzwilliam, for William Fitzwilliam, 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam (1719-1756).





Provenance

William Fitzwilliam, 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam (1719-1756), of Milton Hall, Peterborough, then by descent to

William Henry, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam (1910-1948), of Milton Hall, Peterborough and Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, then by descent to his daughter,

Lady Juliet de Chair (b.1935), of St. Osyth's Priory, Essex.

Mr. Somerset and Lady Juliet de Chair and the Trustees of the Fitzwilliam Settlement; St. Osyth's Priory, Christie's House sale, 5 June 1984, lot 611.

His Excellency Mahdi Al-Tajir (b.1931), United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the Court of St. James,

A Gentleman; Christie's, New York, 19 October 2004, lot 1064.

Benjamin F. Edwards III (1931-2009), of St. Louis, Missouri, business man, collector andphilanthropist.

The Estate of Benjamin F. Edwards III; Christie's, New York, 19 October 2012, lot 214.



Literature

J. Herbert and M. Wrey ed., Christie's Review of the Season, London, 1984, p. 334.

M. Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, Oxford, 1985, p. 143, no. 4

C. Truman, The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, Christie's, 1989, p. 97, no. 67





Exhibited

London, Christie's, The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, January 1990, no. 67
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