A FINE GEORGE IV SILVER CENTERPIECE CANDELABRUM

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A FINE GEORGE IV SILVER CENTERPIECE CANDELABRUM
LONDON, 1827, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR

The shaped triangular base raised on three massive acanthus and rocaille scroll feet joined by a stylised shell and scroll apron, rising to a waisted pedestal with elaborate acanthus leaves and rocaille shells forming cartouches on each side, the pedestal rim chased with serpentine design, supporting three classical muses, two maidens and a male draped with a lion's pelt, holding aloft an instrument, the central standard formed as a fluted column issuing from acanthus leaves, rising to three acanthus scroll branches and a removable central wirework bowl, applied with a rim of leaves and berries, with similar removable stiff-leaf drip-pans and vase-shaped acanthus-clad fluted sockets, the nozzles engraved with a crest, two pedestal panels chased with a coats-of-arms, another with an applied presentation inscription, marked on base, central column, branch, basket, figures, nozzles, sockets and drip-pans--28 1/2in.(71.2cm.) high
(500oz.)

拍品专文

The inscription reads, Presented to Matthew Belle Esq:r M.P. by 793 subscribers as a tribute of respect and to mark their approbation of his honorable and manly conduct during the two arduous contests for the county of Northumberland in the year MDCCCXXVI.

The arms are those of Bell impaling those of Reay, as born by Matthew Bell of Woolsington, Northumberland, born in 1793. He was High Sheriff in 1816 and elected M.P. for the county in the bitterly contested election of 1826. He sat in the House of Commons until 1852 and also served 42 years in the Northumberland Yeomanry. He married in 1816 Elizabeth Anne, elder daughter of Henry Utrick Reay of Killingworth House, Northumberland. Bell died in 1871 without issue.

The coat-of-arms on the other side is that of Northumberland.