A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER CANDLESTICKS

Property of A TEXAS COLLECTOR

细节

A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER CANDLESTICKS
LONDON, 1795, MAKER'S MARK OF ROBERT SHARP

In the Regence style, on square bases with canted corners, cast and chased with strapwork and bellflowers against a matted ground, with dished centers rising to knopped faceted baluster stems similarly-decorated, the central sections each formed of three crouching putti holding aloft a similarly-decorated campana-shaped socket, the base engraved twice with the Prince of Wales feathers enclosed by the Order of the Garter and surmounted by the Royal crown - marked under bases--8½in. (21.59cm.) high
(50oz.) (2)

拍品专文

These candlesticks are copies of George II examples of 1728 with the maker's mark of Charles Hatfield, illustrated in V. Brett, The Sotheby's Pictorial Guide to Silver, 1986, p. 197. Other later copies of this model include a set of four by Robert Garrard of 1846 sold by Christie's, New York, October 18, 1989, lot 26, and another set of four by the same maker of 1874 nd 1875, sold by Christie's, Geneva, November 17, 1980, lot 13.