Pair of Candlesticks
1688 - 1751
Paul De Lamerie
British
On stepped square bases with incurved corners, the centers with circular molding, rising to knopped baluster stems and campana-shaped sockets all of conforming section, the bases engraved within the circular moulding with a crest of a stake entwined by a vine within an oval motto: Qui capit ille facit flanked by two Bacchic supporters with another motto: Sine cercere et Baccho friget Venus below;numbered under the bases I and III and with scratch weights 29=8 and I26=19 respectively; the sockets fitted, probably in the twentieth century, with interior sleeves
Silver
George II (1727-1760)