A Pair of Victorian Large Silver-gilt Six-light Rococo Candelabra with the Montefiore Arms, R & S Garrard, London, 1838-41

on openwork rococo tri-form bases, engraved with arms on a raised escutcheon, the stems and branches formed as a grapevine entwined with an openwork scroll, all realistically modeled and chased with polished fruit and matted leaves, detachable branches and central sconce, removable nozzles, fully marked except for two nozzles, two other nozzles 1842-4, the bases stamped 5

arms slightly later, possible loss of a leaf or two to grapevine spreading over base, some repairs to leaves below sconces and also to pegs of branches where slot into stem, gilding probably later
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The arms are those of Montefiore impaling Goldschmid, for Nathaniel Montefiore, FRCS of Coldeast, Hants., J.P., born 1819, and his wife Emma, whom he married in 1860, daughter of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldschmid, 1st Baronet, of St. John's Lodge. Nathaniel died in 1883 and his wife in 1902.  He was the second son of Abraham Montefiore and his second wife Henrietta Rothschild, daughter of Mayer de Rothschild, and nephew of the celebrated Sir Moses Montefiore.  

Nathaniel received medical training at Guy's Hospital, and in 1858 was elected as a member to the Royal College of Surgeons.  Instead of establishing his own practice, he put his medical experience to use at the Beth Holim Hospital, a well-known charity patronized by the Spanish-Portuguese Jews of London.  In addition to providing treatment for the Hospital's inmates, Nathaniel also served as the charity's treasurer for over twenty-five years.  Following in the philanthropic traditions of his family, Nathaniel served as president of the Jewish and General Literary Institution in Leadenhall Street (also known as "Sussex Hall"), the Jew's Infant School, and the Jew's Emigration Society.  Spanish-Portuguese Judaic philanthropies were of particular importance to the Montefiore family and thus Nathiniel's civic positions also included senior warden of the Spanish-Portuguese congregation to which his family belonged, president of the board of elders, president of the Gates of Hope school, and representative of the congregation of the Board of Deputies.