Live Auction 9698Christie's Interiors
A MATCHED SET OF FOUR GEORGE III/IV SILVER CANDLESTICKS
Lot 530

A MATCHED SET OF FOUR GEORGE III/IV SILVER CANDLESTICKS

MARK OF JOHN & THOMAS SETTLE, SHEFFIELD, THREE 1814, ONE 1823, ONE WITH REPLACEMENT 20TH CENTURY NOZZLE BY HAWKESWORTH EYRE LTD.

Closed26 November 2013

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GBP 3,000

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A MATCHED SET OF FOUR GEORGE III/IV SILVER CANDLESTICKS
MARK OF JOHN & THOMAS SETTLE, SHEFFIELD, THREE 1814, ONE 1823, ONE WITH REPLACEMENT 20TH CENTURY NOZZLE BY HAWKESWORTH EYRE LTD.
Plain tapering columns with narrow fluted girdle, gadroon borders and part-fluted campana-shaped capitals, the filled circular bases engraved with the arms of the Earl of Aberdeen
13 in. high (33 cm.)

Specialist note

George Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen(1784-1860), succeeded to earldom 1791. He was created Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen in the UK peerage in 1814 and invested Knight of the Thistle in 1808. He was Foreign Secretary 1828/30 and again 1841/46 and Tory Prime Minister 1852/55.