THE ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR `FLORA` CANDLESTICKS A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CANDLESTICKS

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Лот 94 | THE ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR 'FLORA' CANDLESTICKS A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CANDLESTICKS
THE ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR 'FLORA' CANDLESTICKS

A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CANDLESTICKS

MARK OF THOMAS HEMING, LONDON, 1770

Each on openwork tripod scroll base applied with acanthus and laurel swags, the stems each formed as a classical allegorical figure emblematic of the goddess Flora, draped with garlands of flowers holding an openwork acanthus knop below a floral fluted drip-pan, the socket chased with acanthus, engraved on the bases with a coat-of-arms with baron's coronet above, marked under bases and on socket

11 1/4 in. (31.1 cm.) high

70 oz. 8 dwt. (2,189 gr.)

The arms are those of Arundell with Conquest in pretence, for Henry Arundell, 8th Baron Arundell of Wardour (1740-1808), of Wardour Castle, Wiltshire and his wife Mary Christina (b.c.1743-1813), daughter and heiress of Benedict Conquest of Irnham Hall, Lincolnshire, whom he married in 1763.





Provenance

Henry Arundell, 7th Baron Arundell of Wardour (1740-1808), of Wardour Castle, Wiltshire.

A Lady; Christie's, London, 11 December 1963, lot 153 (£1,100 to Tessier),

With Tessier, London,

A Collector; Sotheby's, London, 8 June 1972, lot 9.

With J. H. Bourdon Smith, London.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 11 April 1995, lot 362.



Literature

M. Clayton, The Collector's Dictionary of the Gold and Silver of Great Britain and North America, Woodbridge, 1985, p. 62, fig. 81.

T. Schroder, The British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2009, pp. 434-435, n. 12.



Exhibited

London, Christie's, Fanfare for Europe: the British Art Market, 1972, cat. p. 76, exhibited by J. H. Bourdon-Smith.



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