A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER THREE-LIGHT CANDLEABRA
MARK OF JOHN SCOFIELD LONDON, 1785
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER THREE-LIGHT CANDLEABRA MARK OF JOHN SCOFIELD LONDON, 1785 Each on a circular base with a gadrooned rim, the tapering fluted stem terminating in a fluted socket with detachable branches, each branch reeded and leaf decorated and terminating in a leaf calyx supporting a gadrooned drip pan and part fluted socket, with a central vase shaped finial with a flame finial, engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked on base, on base of branches, on sockets, wax pans and on nozzles, the socket and branches each further engraved with a number and scratchweight 'No. 1 35"4' and No. 1 58"4 Comp t' on one and 'No. 4 36"10' and 'No. 2 56"4 Comp t' on the other 21½ in. (54.5 cm.) high the branches 120 oz. (3,735 gr.) The arms are those of Fitzgibbon, for John Fitzgibbon, Attorney General of Ireland and later Lord Chancellor (1748-1802). He was later made 1st Earl of Clare. (2)
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER THREE-LIGHT CANDLEABRA
MARK OF JOHN SCOFIELD LONDON, 1785
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER THREE-LIGHT CANDLEABRA MARK OF JOHN SCOFIELD LONDON, 1785 Each on a circular base with a gadrooned rim, the tapering fluted stem terminating in a fluted socket with detachable branches, each branch reeded and leaf decorated and terminating in a leaf calyx supporting a gadrooned drip pan and part fluted socket, with a central vase shaped finial with a flame finial, engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked on base, on base of branches, on sockets, wax pans and on nozzles, the socket and branches each further engraved with a number and scratchweight 'No. 1 35"4' and No. 1 58"4 Comp t' on one and 'No. 4 36"10' and 'No. 2 56"4 Comp t' on the other 21½ in. (54.5 cm.) high the branches 120 oz. (3,735 gr.) The arms are those of Fitzgibbon, for John Fitzgibbon, Attorney General of Ireland and later Lord Chancellor (1748-1802). He was later made 1st Earl of Clare. (2)
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