AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
MARK OF DIGBY SCOTT AND BENJAMIN SMITH LONDON, 1804, RETAILED BY RUNDELL, BRIDGE AND RUNDELL
AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA MARK OF DIGBY SCOTT AND BENJAMIN SMITH LONDON, 1804, RETAILED BY RUNDELL, BRIDGE AND RUNDELL On three foliage capped hairy lion's paw feet, separated by cast classical female masks wearing fruiting grapevine headdresses, the stems supported on three pairs of feet and capped with three cast masks, the branches each capped with foliage and with lion mask cast roundells, terminating in fluted drip pans and with detachable nozzles, the nozzles each engraved with a crest and earl's coronet, fully marked, the bases further engraved 'RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS ET PRINCIPIS WALL:æ FECERUNT' 25¼ in. (64.2 cm.) high gross weight 423 oz. (13,161 gr.) The crest is that of Alexander for Du Pre, 2nd Earl of Caledon, K.P., M.P. (1777-1839), son of James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon (1730-1802) and his wife Anne, second daughter of James Craufurd of Craufurdsburn, co. Down. (2)
AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
MARK OF DIGBY SCOTT AND BENJAMIN SMITH LONDON, 1804, RETAILED BY RUNDELL, BRIDGE AND RUNDELL
AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA MARK OF DIGBY SCOTT AND BENJAMIN SMITH LONDON, 1804, RETAILED BY RUNDELL, BRIDGE AND RUNDELL On three foliage capped hairy lion's paw feet, separated by cast classical female masks wearing fruiting grapevine headdresses, the stems supported on three pairs of feet and capped with three cast masks, the branches each capped with foliage and with lion mask cast roundells, terminating in fluted drip pans and with detachable nozzles, the nozzles each engraved with a crest and earl's coronet, fully marked, the bases further engraved 'RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS ET PRINCIPIS WALL:æ FECERUNT' 25¼ in. (64.2 cm.) high gross weight 423 oz. (13,161 gr.) The crest is that of Alexander for Du Pre, 2nd Earl of Caledon, K.P., M.P. (1777-1839), son of James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon (1730-1802) and his wife Anne, second daughter of James Craufurd of Craufurdsburn, co. Down. (2)
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