

This pair of candlesticks and the following two lots are probably those from five pairs listed at Notley Abbey in 1948. Vivien was a keen collector of 18th century enamel ware. Hugo Vickers writes 'There seemed little evidence of rationing at Notley's dining-room table, exquisitely adorned with Battersea enamel candelabra, flowered Capodimonte dinner plates and Georgian silver' (Vickers, op. cit., p. 170).