Untitled
John Parker
Category
Silver
Date
1772 - 1773
Materials
Silver
Measurements
360 mm (Height)
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 936005.1
Summary
One of two two-light candelabra by Parker and Wakelin, 1772/73. 'The stepped and circular feet are apparently cast and chased with a band of laurel and fluting rising to a central dome. The stems are cast and chased, have a lower annular knop, stiff leaves and fluting on the shaft, and separately cast and applied festoons of laurel. The vase-shaped sockets have a lobed calyx each and an upper band of laurel. The cast double scrolled branches centre on a vase with flame finial, have double scrolled leafy stems supporting cast drip pans and sockets with stiff leaves. The different elements of the branches, once separate, have been soldered together... [(a)+(b)] are engraved with the Booth crest surmounted by an earl's coronet... [(c)+(d)] are engraved with the crest of Stamford' (Lomax and Rothwell, 'Country House Silver from Dunham Massey', 2006, pp. 146).
Provenance
Acquired by the 5th Earl of Stamford (1737-1819) in 1774 from the royal goldsmiths, Parker and Wakelin. By descent to the 7th Earl of Stamford (1827-83). On the death of his widow, Catherine Cocks, Countess of Stamford, in 1905, the candelabra passed to his niece, Katherine Henrietta Venezia Milbank (d. 1926), wife of Arthur Duncombe (later Grey) then to her daughter, Cecily Grey (1877-1961) and by descent to her nephew, the 6th Lord Deramore (1911-2006), who lent them to the National Trust for display at Dunham Massey. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust for display at Dunham Massey, 2008.
Makers and roles
John Parker, silversmith Edward Wakelin (fl.1730 - 1766), silversmith