A Pair of William III Antique English Silver Candlesticks, 1696
Height: 8 in.
Weight: 52 oz. 18 dwt.
London
H0321
$ 95,000.00
The mark, DW, is probably that of David Willaume Each on square base with canted angles and gadrooned border, the baluster stem applied with four lions' masks and with partly...
The mark, DW, is probably that of David Willaume
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’.
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).
Exhibited:
Queen Charlotte's Loan Exhibition of Old Silver, 1 May - 8 June 1929, no. 413, pl. LIII
Provenance:
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839) or, Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1797-1861)
The Stowe House; Christie's House Sale, 15 August 1848, and for 37 days, probably part of lot 407, sold to P.D. Pauncefort Duncombe, Esq.
Thomas Hugh Cobb (1863-1944), solicitor and collector of 9 The Manor, Davies Street, Mayfair, London.
The Executors of the late Thomas Hugh Cobb Esq.; Sotheby's, London, 19 October 1944, lot 26. with S. J. Phillips Limited, London.
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’.
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).
Exhibited:
Queen Charlotte's Loan Exhibition of Old Silver, 1 May - 8 June 1929, no. 413, pl. LIII
Provenance:
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839) or, Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1797-1861)
The Stowe House; Christie's House Sale, 15 August 1848, and for 37 days, probably part of lot 407, sold to P.D. Pauncefort Duncombe, Esq.
Thomas Hugh Cobb (1863-1944), solicitor and collector of 9 The Manor, Davies Street, Mayfair, London.
The Executors of the late Thomas Hugh Cobb Esq.; Sotheby's, London, 19 October 1944, lot 26. with S. J. Phillips Limited, London.