A large pair of Queen Anne Britannia standard silver candlesticks, London 1705 by John Barnard I

The square base with canted corners and embossed gadrooned and moulded bands, rising to a fluted centre additionally with gadrooned bands to a square ‘disc’ section topped with a domed gadrooned band to a fluted doric column with square and canted corner capitals with a gadrooned band. The base sections with an oval cartouche flanked by scrolls reserved with chased fish scales and a textured section, the cartouche engraved with an impaled coat of arms. Each fully marked underneath. (2)

Height – 26.5 cm / 10.5 inches

Weight – 1088 grams / 34.98 ozt

The arms are those of Wrathe (Wroth) impaling another.

Provenance: purchased from How (Of Edinburgh), 41 St. James's Place, London 12 December 1995.

Illustrated in How of Edinburgh 1992 Exhibition catalogue, plate 19, number 30.