Lot 334
A PAIR OF GEORGE III CAST SILVERGILT CANDLESTICKS
in the Rococo manner, on shaped circular bases with cup-shaped nozzles, the whole decorated in relief with flowers, scrolls, foliage & shells, leaf-matting, grotesque masks, reptiles, insects & molluscs, engraved on the nozzles and below the capitals with a Viscount's coronet and two small crests below their mottoes, by Thomas Pitts, London 1806; 10.5" (26.5 cms) high; 85.8 oz (2)
*The crests are those of Duncan and Haldane, probably for Adam, Viscount Duncan (1812-1867), who succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Camperdown of Lundie on 22 December 1859.
*Provenance: Purchased from Spink & Son Ltd., 1982.
