A fine set of four Dutch silver candlesticks, Jan Diederik Pont, Amsterdam, 1758

each on a shaped square base, moulded with scrolls and stylised foliage, rising to a baluster knobbed stem, cast with rocaille and stylised foliage, spirally fluted sconces in similar taste, detachable spirally fluted foliate matching nozzles by Robert Garrards II, London, 1848, all bases and nozzles engraved with the crests of Cavendish, Dukes of Devonshire, fully marked below the base, also struck with a control mark of 1795 for Amsterdam

With Premsela & Hamburger, Amsterdam, 1957

Exh. cat. Meesterwerken in zilver, Amsterdams zilver 1520-1820, Museum Willet-Holthuysen Amsterdam, Lochem, 1984, p. 130/131, no. 143, illustrated

J. Verbeek, Nederland zilver 1725-1780, Lochem, 1988, p. 54, no. 60, illustrated

The design of these candlesticks was used by Jan Diederik Pont in 1757 and in 1761. Silversmiths in Groningen, Utrecht, Rotterdam, and Gelderland used this design as well, see J.W. Frederiks, Dutch silver, Vol. III, The Hague, 1960, p. 54, no. 163, plate 129, for a pair of candlesticks by Salomon Lamberts from Zutphen in 1766, and Sotheby's Amsterdam, 13 November 2000, lot 260 for a pair of candlesticks by Gerard van de Bijlaard from Utrecht in 1763. Another pair of candlesticks, by the Rotterdam silversmith Bartholomeus van der Tooren in 1766, is in a private collection in England.