Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 2 - 25 Jan 2023
A pair of William III silver candlesticks
A pair of William III silver candlesticks,
maker's mark IL with a coronet above, London 1696,
knopped columns, applied with four lion masks, spool shaped capitals, rope-work borders, on raised square bases with canted corners and rope-work decoration, engraved with an armorial within foliate mantling, the undersides with scratch weights, height 17cm, approx. weight 26.9oz. (2)
For the maker's mark see Jackson's, Ian Pickford Edition, The Antique Collector's Club, 1989, page 135.