AN IMPORTANT SET OF SIX GEORGE I ROYAL SILVER CANDLESTICKS FIVE WITH MARK OF NICHOLAS CLAUSEN, LONDON, 1718, ONE APPARENTLY UNMARKED On stepped square bases with incurved corners, the circular wells rising to conforming square baluster stems and urn form sockets, the wells engraved with the Royal arms, five fully marked on undersides, one apparently unmarked, undersides with scratch weights and numbered X52-57 8 7/8 in. (22.7 cm.); 164 oz. 6 dwt. (5,110 gr.) Provenance Almost certainly six from a set of ‘3 dozen chamber candlesticks of square shape’ from the Royal and Electoral Court of Hanover of King George I. By descent in the Royal family of Great Britain and Hanover until the death of King William IV in 1837, at which time the two kingdoms became separate under different monarchs. Ernest Augustus, 1st Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover (r.1837-1851), fifth son of King George III of Great Britain and brother of King William IV. By descent to his grandson the Duke of Brunswick (1845-1923). Sold privately to the Vienna dealers Gluckselig, 1924. Acquired by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller from Frank Partridge, London, June 1924. By descent to David Rockefeller, 1960.
AN IMPORTANT SET OF SIX GEORGE I ROYAL SILVER CANDLESTICKS FIVE WITH MARK OF NICHOLAS CLAUSEN, LONDON, 1718, ONE APPARENTLY UNMARKED On stepped square bases with incurved corners, the circular wells rising to conforming square baluster stems and urn form sockets, the wells engraved with the Royal arms, five fully marked on undersides, one apparently unmarked, undersides with scratch weights and numbered X52-57 8 7/8 in. (22.7 cm.); 164 oz. 6 dwt. (5,110 gr.) Provenance Almost certainly six from a set of ‘3 dozen chamber candlesticks of square shape’ from the Royal and Electoral Court of Hanover of King George I. By descent in the Royal family of Great Britain and Hanover until the death of King William IV in 1837, at which time the two kingdoms became separate under different monarchs. Ernest Augustus, 1st Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover (r.1837-1851), fifth son of King George III of Great Britain and brother of King William IV. By descent to his grandson the Duke of Brunswick (1845-1923). Sold privately to the Vienna dealers Gluckselig, 1924. Acquired by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller from Frank Partridge, London, June 1924. By descent to David Rockefeller, 1960.
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