A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER-GILT THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA AND PAIR OF MATCHING CANDLESTICKS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER-GILT THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA AND PAIR OF MATCHING CANDLESTICKS
MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1802

On spreading circular bases chased with bands of overlapping paterae and ovolo rising to a tapering square stem supported on eight paw feet and headed by four cast lion's masks, with part-fluted campana-form sockets with key and rosette bands above fluting and with ovolo rims, the candelabra with leaf-clad reeded scroll branches with drip-pans and sockets of conforming decoration, with removable dentilated nozzles, the bases engraved with a crest enclosed by the Order of the Garter and surmounted by an earl's coronet, the nozzles engraved with the same crest and coronet, marked on bases, branches, wax pans and nozzles, the branch nozzles 1806 --20in. (51cm.) high
(276oz., 8607gr.) (4)

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The crest and coronet are those of Charles, 2nd Earl Talbot, who was born in 1777 and succeeded his father to the title in 1793. He was Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire 1812-1849 and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1817-1821. It was during his term at Dublin that George IV paid his famous state visit to Ireland, in 1821. He was created a Knight of St. Patrick in 1821 and, in 1844, installed as a Knight of the Garter. He married in 1800 Frances, daughter of Charles Lambert, who died in childbirth at Pheonix Park, Dublin, his official residence, in 1819. Lord Talbot "paid great attention to agriculture and to the improvement of his Staffordshire estates, in which county #1,400 was raised in 1839 to present him with a testimonial, which he appropriated to the endowment of the new church at Salt ... He was a moderate Tory and opposed Catholic Emancipation, but supported the repeal of the Corn Laws" (Complete Peerage). He died in 1849. aged 72.

The design for these candlesticks appears to be based on French ormolu examples by Pierre Gouthière (1732-1813), the most celebrated doreur ciseleur of his time, maitre in 1758 and doreur ordinaire des Menus-Plaisirs in 1767.