
Lot Closed
May 26, 02:38 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A pair of William IV silver three-light candelabra, Paul Storr
London, 1835
domed and moulded tri-form bases applied with shells, flowers and scrolls, armorial engraved and crested, rising to fluted stems with detachable branches and central candle holders, rocaille moulded sconces and detachable nozzles engraved with the same crest as the bases
64cm., 25 1/2 in. high
7339 gr., 236oz
The arms those of Hartopp quartering Craddock for Sir Edmund Hartopp-Cradock of Freathby, co. Leicester, who succeeded his father as second baronet on 10th June 1833. The crests are those of Hartopp-Cradock.
The Hartopp-Cradock baronetcy came about as follows: with the death of Sir Edmund Hartopp in 1762, the Hartopp baronetcy expired, and his estate was inherited by his daughter Anne. She married Joseph Hurlock, a director of The East India Company, and was succeeded in turn by a daughter, also Anne. This second Anne was a double heiress, both to her parents and to the Fleetwood property in the county of Norfolk, which she received by bequest. She married in 1777 Edmund Bunney, Esq., whose mother's maiden name was Cradock and who was created a baronet, assuming by authority both surnames (Burke's Peerage, Baronatage and Knightage, London, 1841, p. 510).
A set of 13 Sheffield plate soup plates by Matthew Boulton with the arms of Sir Edmund and those of his wife Anne in pretence were sold Christies London, Robert de Balkany Rome & the Cote d'azur, 22 March 2017, lot 652.
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