FOUR GEORGE II SILVER CANDLESTICKS

FOUR GEORGE II SILVER CANDLESTICKS
ONE LONDON, 1721, MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, ONE WITH MARK OF ABRAHAM BUTEAUX, LONDON, 1727, BRITANNIA STANDARD; TWO WITH MARK OF JOHN CAFE, LONDON, 1754 AND 1755
The first two on stepped square base with sunken well and baluster stems, terminating in spool-shaped socket with gadrooned nozzle, later engraved with the Bentinck crest within Garter motto and below duke's coronet, the second two very similar with slightly less sunken well, with plain shaped nozzles, engraved with the Bentinck crest below a duke's coronet, each marked under base and engraved with scratchweights 'No 1 16=17½'; 'No 4 18=19-½'; 'No 1 14=11' and 'No 5 14=10' respectively, each with early 20th century electrical fitments, with ivory switches
14¼ in. (36.2 cm.) high and smaller
The crests are those of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland (1709-1762) who was made a Knight of the Garter in 1741. (4)