拍品 238
238
BRITISH SILVER Property of A FLORIDA COLLECTOR
A PAIR OF VICTORIAN SILVER FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

MAKER'S MARK OF HUNT & ROSKELL, LONDON, 1867

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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN SILVER FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
maker's mark of hunt & roskell, london, 1867
Each on square gadrooned base, spiralling columnar stem and four-arm branches with central socket, the base engraved with Earl's armorials and the branches with a crest and coronet, marked on bases, branches, nozzles and central standards, also stamped HUNT & ROSKELL LATE STORR & MORTIMER
24½in (62.7cm.) high; 278oz. (8663gr.) (2)

拍品专文

The arms are those of Murray, as borne by Charles Adolphus, 7th Earl of Dunmore, who was born in 1841. He was a Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria 1874-1880 and served as Lord Lieutenant of Stirlingshire 1875-1885. He married in 1866 Gertrude, daughter of Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester. "A great traveller, and his magnificent physique enabled him to penetrate regions full of hardships ... a man of no slight powers of observation and description" - so Dunmore was described by The Times in its obituary of him after his death in 1907.