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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN GILT-METAL SEVEN LIGHT CANDELABRA
BY WILLIAM AND GEORGE SISSONS OF BIRMINGHAM AND LONDON, CIRCA 1860
A PAIR OF VICTORIAN GILT-METAL SEVEN LIGHT CANDELABRA BY WILLIAM AND GEORGE SISSONS OF BIRMINGHAM AND LONDON, CIRCA 1860 Each with three scrolling foliate double branches issuing from a conforming shaft adorned with a pair of putti on a spreading base with armorial panel engraved ' CRUX CHRISTI NOSTRA CORONA ', previously silver-plated, one struck with a bell and the letter 'g' to the underside 31 1/3 in. (80 cm.) high The arms are those of Barclay and Barclay accolé with de Rune, for Sir David William Barclay 10th Bt. (1804-1888) and his first wife Lise-Josephe (d.1867), daughter of Charles Malo de Rune, Marquis de Rune of Mauritius and Warsey, Picardie, France, whom he married in 1829. Sir David served as a captain in the 56th and 99th Regiments and was aide-de-camp to General Hon. Sir Charles Colville, Governor of Mauritius. He was a member of the Legislative Council of the island from 1849 until 1864. He was also a celebrated conchologist. His collection of shells was sold in 1891 following his death. A number of shells were named after him, some described in Lovell Reeve's paper 'Descriptions of Seven Shells from the Collection of the Hon. Sir David Barclay of Port Louis, Mauritius', Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, vol. 25., part XXV, 1857, p. 207. He was blamed for the introduction of the invasive African Land Snail to the island some time before 1847. (2)