Lot 206
An important pair of George II silver candlesticks
Paul de Lamerie, London 1737-38
Auction: 23 November 2008 at 15:00 GMT
Description
the square bases with inturned corners, cast leaf detail and chased shells to the corners, the dome with applied and cast shells in cartouches on a matted ground, rising to a tapering square baluster stem with shell detail to the shoulders, scale pattern to the sides, foliate clasped socket, the base engraved at the flat with a rose crest (2)
19.5cm high, 22oz each
Provenance
Sotheby’s London, 6th November 1997, lot 163
The other two of a set of four were sold by Christie’s New York, 19th October 2004, lot 10627
The other two of a set of four were sold by Christie's New York, 19th October 2004, lot 1062
Footnote
Heraldry:
The crest of the rose is probably for Sir Theodore Janssen (1658-1748), a Dutch merchant who settled in England circa 1680 and was a founder director of the Bank of England. He was created a baronet 1714, a very successful financier with a reputed wealth of 300,000. He was implicated in the South Sea Bubble scandal and was heavily fined by the House of Commons committee in 1721
A set of four salts also by de Lamerie and engraved with the same crest are in the Farrer Collection at the Ashmolean Museum (Illus. Susan Hare, Paul de Lamerie, no. 78, p.122)