Details
On circular bases with beaded rims, later engraved with a coat-of-arms below a duke's coronet, with tapering fluted stems with fluted vase-shaped sconces, the detachable acanthus-capped fluted double branches with cylindrical sconces with detachable nozzles and circular drip pans with beaded rims, with central flaming urn finial, the sconces, drip pans, and finial all engraved with a crest below a duke's coronet, marked throughout
175⁄8 in. (44.8 cm.) high
72 oz. 14 dwt. (2,261 gr.)
The arms are those of Clinton quartering Pelham impaling Mundy quartering Chadwick for Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785-1851) and his wife Georgiana Elizabeth (1789-1822), only child and heiress of Edward Miller Mundy of Shipley Hall, and his second wife Georgiana Willoughby née Chadwick, former wife of Thomas Willoughby, 4th Baron Middleton and second daughter of Evelyn Chadwick of West Leake.
Provenance
Possibly with Major-General Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1752-1795).
Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785-1851) and his wife Georgiana Elizabeth (1789-1822).
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