A pair of George IV figural five-light candelabra, Robert Garrard II, London, 1823, the branches 1826

the circular bases on scrolled shell supports and engraved with arms, the stems richly cast, chased and textured as a seated male accompanied by a goat and a female figure accompanied by a leopard, with cherubs on their shoulders supporting grape-laden baskets, the detachable tops with three scrolled foliate branches complete with drip-pans, sconces and detachable nozzles, centered by a floral bouquet finial

By family decent, sold Sotheby's London, 18 December 2007, lot 158

The same model of candelabra is illustrated as a part of a three-piece suite in Royal Goldsmiths, The Garrard Heritage, Garrard & Co. Ltd, London, 1991, p.76-77.

engraving removed from base, as noted re. repair to top of one stem and marked by Joseph Angell, London, 1849
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The arms are those of Le Marchant impaling Smith for the Liberal politician and civil servant Sir Denis Le Marchant (1795-1874), second son of Major-General John Gaspard Le Marchant, who was killed at the Battle of Salamanca in 1812, and his wife Mary, daughter of John Carey. Sir Denis, who married in 1835 Sarah Eliza (d. 1894), sister of Sir Charles Smith, 1^st Bt, was educated at Eton and joined the Board of Trade in 1836, where he was Secretary until 1841, the year of his creation as a baronet. At that time he had recently inherited a fortune from an uncle, which prompted him to buy a country seat, Chobham Place, south of Sunningdale, Berkshire, a house with fine views, the site of which in the 17^th Century John Aubrey had recommended for its 'salubrious air [and] blue mist in the valleys.'

Le Marchant, who was MP for Worcester in 1846/47, became Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1847 and Chief Clerk of the House of Commons in 1850, which post he held until 1871.His elder son, Henry Denis (1839-1915), who succeeded to the title as 2^nd baronet upon his father's death, became a barrister; and his younger son, Francis Charles (1843-1930), was a member of the Council of India between 1896 and 1906. Of his other children, only two appear to be recorded: Helen Augusta (1836-1924) and Emma Mary (1841-1851).

A nearly identical pair of 1825 candelabra applied with the arms of William 6th Duke of Devonshire, K.G. was sold in the sale of Highly Important Old English and French Silver from the Chatsworth Collection at Christie's, London on 25 June 1958, lot 20.  Another pair of candelabra of the same date and a pair of 1824-25 centerpieces with matching figural stems remain in the collection at Chatsworth.  A pair of 1838-40 candelabra with the same figural stems was also sold Sotheby's, New York, on 26 April 2008, lot 254.  Another similar and slightly smaller three-light model is in the Jerome and Rita Gans Collection of English Silver at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.