拍品专文
An identical pair of candelabra, of 1775, with both candlesticks and branches with the maker's mark of John Carter, was sold by Christie's, London, October 24, 1990, lot 168.
细节
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA
LONDON, 1773, MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN CARTER, THE BRANCHES MAKER'S MARK OF THOMAS HEMING
Each on square pedestal base with stiff leaf border, embossed with ram's heads and laurel swags with oval cartouches below, one engraved with a crest, rising to waisted and fluted columns headed by ram's heads and campana-form fluted sockets chased with bands of Greek key each with two foliate scroll branches issuing from a central standard applied with paterae and wreathed in drapery, each supporting from an openwork acanthus bracket laurel leaf wax pans and Greek key sockets with removable sockets engraved with thesame crest, marked on bases, branches, wax pans and two sockets (one set of branches with maker's mark only)--16 1/2in.(41.6cm.) high
(weight of branches 48oz.) (2)
LONDON, 1773, MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN CARTER, THE BRANCHES MAKER'S MARK OF THOMAS HEMING
Each on square pedestal base with stiff leaf border, embossed with ram's heads and laurel swags with oval cartouches below, one engraved with a crest, rising to waisted and fluted columns headed by ram's heads and campana-form fluted sockets chased with bands of Greek key each with two foliate scroll branches issuing from a central standard applied with paterae and wreathed in drapery, each supporting from an openwork acanthus bracket laurel leaf wax pans and Greek key sockets with removable sockets engraved with thesame crest, marked on bases, branches, wax pans and two sockets (one set of branches with maker's mark only)--16 1/2in.(41.6cm.) high
(weight of branches 48oz.) (2)