Height: 4% in. (12.1 cm;); Width: 55 /s in.
(14.3 cm); Depth: 7% in. (19.8 cm)
Accession number 71 .DG.76.1—.2
PROVENANCE
Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, Lon
don (sold 1903); J. H. Fitzhenry, London
(sold, Christie's, London, November 20,
1913, lot 214); [Gaston Bensimon, Paris];
David David-Weill, Paris (sold, Palais
Galliera, Paris, November 24,1971, lot 14);
purchased at that sale by J. Paul Getty.
EXHIBITIONS
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Exposition
d'orftvrerie frangaise civile du XVe siecle au
debut du XIXe, April-May 1926, no. 108, on
loan from David David-Weill.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Storia degli Argenti, Kirsten Aschengreen-
Piacenti, ed. (Novara, 1987), p. 128, illus.- Pair of Candelabra
Paris, 1779-1782
By Robert-Joseph Auguste
Silver
Marked variously with maker's stamp of
R.J. A. with a palm branch and two grains,
below a crowned fleur-de-lys; a crowned Ρ
(the warden's mark used between July 18,
1778, and July 21,1781); a crowned S (the
wardens mark used between August 1,1781,
and July 13,1782); the letters P.A.R.I.S. (the
charge mark used between September 1,
1775, and April 7,1781, under the fermier
Jean-Baptiste Fouache); crossed Z's (the
charge mark used between April 7, 1781,
One of a pair 193and June 4,1783, under the fermier'Henry
Clavel); a jug (the discharge mark used on
works destined for export between April 7,
1781, and June 4,1783); an ant in a rectangle
(the mark of .800 minimum standard for
works imported into France from contract
ing countries as used since July 1,1893); and
the letter G (of unknown meaning). Each
base engraved with the monogram GR III
under a crown.
Height: 1 ft. ioV% in. (56.1 cm); Width:
ι ft. 3/8 in. (38.5 cm) Depth: 1 ft. 2^3 /s in.
(36.5 cm)
Accession number 84 .DG.42.1—.2
PROVENANCE
From a service made for George III of
England; (?) Ernst Augustus, Duke ofCumberland and Brunswick-Lüneburg,
King of Hanover, 1837; (?) Ernst Augustus,
Duke of Cumberland and Brunswick-
Lüneburg, 1851 (sold after his death, circa
1924); Cartier, Ltd., London, by 1926; Louis
Cartier, Paris, by the 1960s; Claude Cartier,
Paris, 1970s (sold, Sotheby's, Monaco,
November 25-27,1979, lot 824, with
another pair of matching candelabra);
Veronique Cartier, Paris, 1979.EXHIBITIONS
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Exposition
d'orfevrerie frangaise civile du XVe siecle au
debut du XIXe, April-May 1926, no. 144,
on loan from Cartier, Ltd., London; Paris,
Galerie Mellerio, LOrfevrerie et le bijou
d'autrefois, 1935, no. 70.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Faith Dennis, Three Centuries of French
Domestic Silver: Its Makers and Its Marks
(New York, i960), vol. 1, no. 20, p. 45, illus.
vol. 2, p. 31; Claude Frégnac et al., Les
Grands orfevres de Louis XIII a Charles X
(Collection Connaissance des arts, Paris,
1965), pp. 240-241, fig. 2; Jacques Helft,
French Master Goldsmiths and Silversmiths
(New York, 1966), p. 240, fig. 2; Serge
Grandjean et al., Cinq années d'enrichisse-
ment du patrimoine national1975-1980,
Grand Palais, Paris, November 1980-March
1981, no. 109, pp. 128-129; "Acquisitions/
1984," GettyMusJi?, (1985), no. 63, p. 182,
illus. (one); Jonathan Bourne and Vanessa
Brett, Lighting in the Domestic Lnterior:
Renaissance to Art Nouveau (London, 1991),
illus. p. 108, fig. 344.Il6 FRENCH SILVER