拍品 85
85
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
TWO GEORGE IV/WILLIAM IV SILVER THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

细节
TWO GEORGE IV/WILLIAM IV SILVER THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
THE FIRST MAKER'S MARK OF SAMUEL WHEATLEY, LONDON, 1823, THE SECOND MAKER'S MARK OF WILLIAM BATEMAN, 1836

Each on shaped circular spreading base, with knopped baluster stem, foliate scroll branches, circular drip-pans, baluster sockets and removable shaped circular nozzles, elaborately cast and chased overall with lion masks, dolphins, eagles, ram's heads and bearded masks within swirling scrolls, flowers and rocaille on a matted ground, the central standard surmounted by a removable eagle with wings spread, the base and central standard engraved with the same crest and Earl's coronet, fully marked except one eagle finial
Overall height 26in.(66cm.); 440oz.10dwt. (13710gr.) (2)

拍品专文

The complex design of these candelabra is of particular interest as it incorporates revived baroque and rococo elements. A similar pair of candelabra of 1815 is illustrated in Michael Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, 1985, p. 247.