A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRUM

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A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRUM
MAKER'S MARK OF JOSEPH ANGELL SR. & JR., LONDON, 1844

In the Renaissance taste; on elaborate triangular scroll base with three shaped square feet, rising to a knopped stem with strapwork, supporting three openwork scroll branches with similar shaped wax pans and sockets, with removable cylindrical nozzles, the base engraved with a cypher and coronet on one side and a presentation inscription PRESENTED BY Her Majesty Queen Adelaide TO R.SCAMP, ESQR. IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF HIS SERVICES IN COMPLETING THE Collegiate Church of St. Paul AT MALTA, March 1st 1845 on another, fully marked, two nozzles by another maker
26in. (66gr.) high; 153oz. 10dwt. (4785gr.)

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The design for this candelabrum was patented by Joseph Angell & Son on November 13, 1844. A pair of similar form of the same year was supplied by the firm for presentaiton by Christian VIII, King of Denmark, to the diplomatist John Hay Hay-Drummond in 1844, sold by Sotheby's, London, May 27, 1971, lot 118. A similar pair was sold in these Rooms, April 11, 1995, lot 198.