Classic Design Including Property of the Marquess of Anglesey
Classic Design Including Property of the Marquess of Anglesey
The Property of the Marquess of Anglesey from the Private Apartment at Plas Newydd
Two matched pairs of George III silver candelabra, John Wakelin & William Taylor, London, 1784/1790
Lot Closed
April 11, 01:39 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The shaped-square bases with gadroon borders and shell feet, the fluted stems with similar ornament, the removable spiraling foliate branches with central ball finials, engraved with the crest, motto and coronet of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768 – 1854).
Height 39cm., 14¼in
7838gr., 252oz.
Henry Bayly-Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, second creation, (1744-1812). He was born Henry Bayly in 1769 he succeeded as 10th Baron Paget on the death of his mothers cousin. In 1770 he changed his name to incorporate Paget by Royal license.
Anon, An Inventory of Plate Belonging to His Excellency the Most Noble
Marquess of Anglesey, 1828, p.7., ‘4 square foot Shell and gdrn candlesticks, 2 Ch[ased] branches’ (Bangor University Archives and Special Collections, PN/IX/6145);
Anon, List of Plate sent to Plasnewydd, August 1832, 1 sheet, possibly ‘4 pair twisted branches’ (PN/IX/6145);
Thomas Cross, List of 26 Boxes of Heirloom Silver Deposited with Messrs Coutts & Co, 12th January 1905, Box 10, ‘2 pairs square footed, shell and gadroon candlesticks with two-light branches’ (PN/IX/6147);
Carrington & Co., London, Heirloom Plate, 15th February 1912, p.6., ‘2 Pairs Candelabra, 2 light, total height 15½” square shaped bases, with gadroon & 4 shells, square hollow fluted columns, with scroll and fluted body, leafage arms (PN/IX/6145);
Lofts & Warner, London, An Inventory and Valuation […] At Plas Newydd, Anglesey, 1948, p.95, Silver, ‘A set of 4 Geo. III 2 light candelabra with baluster shaped stems on square bases with gadroon borders and shell corners, 1 pair 1784, I pair 1791’ (Private Family Archive).