Details
On circular bases cast and chased with trellis centered by flowerheads and spaced by shells, everted fluted lobes rise to tapered square stems cast with overlapping petals and topped by double-shells flanked by acanthus at shoulders, the detachable tops with central baluster stem surmounted by campana-form sconces cast with still palm leaves and with removable ivy and berry bud finial, and with two reeded acanthus scroll branches rising to conforming sconces, detachable nozzles with gadrooned rims, the candlesticks numbered 1 and three, the branches numbered 1 and 2, marked throughout and with French import marks, the bases stamped RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS ET PRINCIPIS WALLIAE LONDINI FECERUNT
2712 in. (69.8 cm.) high
291 oz. 16 dwt. (9,075 gr.)
Provenance
The Strassburger family, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Exhibited
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1993-2021.
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An identical example is illustrated in M. Moss, The Lillian and Morrie Moss Collection of Paul Storr Silver, Miami, 1972, pp. 96-97, plate 37. A further identical candlestick with different branches is illustrated in M. M. Penzer, Paul Storr, 1771-1844: Silversmith and Goldsmith, London, 1954, pp. 126-127, plate XXIV.

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