A PAIR OF WILLIAM III SILVER CANDLESTICKS
LONDON, 1696, MAKER'S MARK IN SCRIPT DW WITH MULLET BENEATH, A CROWN ABOVE IN HEART-SHAPED PUNCH, THE NOZZLES CIRCA 1760
Each on square base with canted angles and gadrooned border, the baluster stem applied with four lions' masks and with partly fluted vase-shaped socket and detachable nozzles, each engraved with a crest with duke's coronet above, marked underneath, numbered '1' and '2'
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high
52 oz. 18 dwt. (1,646 gr.)
The crest is that of Grenville, for the Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839) or his son Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1797-1861).
A PAIR OF WILLIAM III SILVER CANDLESTICKS
LONDON, 1696, MAKER'S MARK IN SCRIPT DW WITH MULLET BENEATH, A CROWN ABOVE IN HEART-SHAPED PUNCH, THE NOZZLES CIRCA 1760
Each on square base with canted angles and gadrooned border, the baluster stem applied with four lions' masks and with partly fluted vase-shaped socket and detachable nozzles, each engraved with a crest with duke's coronet above, marked underneath, numbered '1' and '2'
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high
52 oz. 18 dwt. (1,646 gr.)
The crest is that of Grenville, for the Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839) or his son Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1797-1861).