Ellis Finch
Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
Lot 28*
A pair of George III silver-gilt three-light candelabra Paul Storr, London 1814 (2)
23 June 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£40,000 - £60,000
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A pair of George III silver-gilt three-light candelabra
Paul Storr, London 1814
The three lights with part-gadrooned sockets and issuing from reeded scroll branches and central flaring central supports, the stems with bands of rosettes and wavy gadroons, the bases with acanthus ornament and interlacing motifs, engraved with the arms and crests of George O'Brien Wyndam (1751-1837), 3rd Earl Egremont, of Petworth House, Sussex and Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, height 48cm, weight 201oz. (2)
The three lights with part-gadrooned sockets and issuing from reeded scroll branches and central flaring central supports, the stems with bands of rosettes and wavy gadroons, the bases with acanthus ornament and interlacing motifs, engraved with the arms and crests of George O'Brien Wyndam (1751-1837), 3rd Earl Egremont, of Petworth House, Sussex and Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, height 48cm, weight 201oz. (2)
Footnotes
Property from an International Private Collection
Provenance
Christie's, New York, October 1995, lot 336.
George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751–1837) was an enthusiastic patron of the arts. He filled his stately manor, Petworth House in West Sussex, with refined decorative and fine art including paintings by John Constable, Anthony van Dyck and J.M.W. Turner, sculpture by John Flaxman and furniture and carvings by Grinling Gibbons. His extensive silver dinner service ranks as one of Storr's largest.
George O'Brien WYNDHAM (1751-1837) was the eldest son and heir of Charles WYNDHAM (1710-1763), 2nd Earl Egremont of Orchard Wyndham and Petworth House, by Alicia Maria CARPENTER. He inherited the title of 3rd Earl Egremont when aged twelve years. In 1774 at the death of his uncle, Percy WYNDHAM-O'BRIEN (1710-1774), 1st Earl Thomond, from whom he inherited considerable estates in Ireland, he added the name O'BRIEN to his own but his arms remained undifferenced. In 1801 he married his mistress, Elizabeth ILIVE (1769-1822), with whom he had eight children. He had a total of forty children, of which the only legitimate issue died an infant. He was succeeded by his nephew George WYNDHAM (1710-1763) the 4th and last Earl Egremont.
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