THE EMPEROR'S PLATE, ASCOT, 1846: AN IMPORTANT VICTORIAN SILVER THIRTEEN-LIGHT PRESENTATION CANDELABRUM CENTERPIECE MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, FOR HUNT AND ROSKELL, LONDON, 1846, AFTER A DESIGN BY EDWARD HODGES BAILY

THE EMPEROR'S PLATE, ASCOT, 1846: AN IMPORTANT VICTORIAN SILVER THIRTEEN-LIGHT PRESENTATION CANDELABRUM CENTERPIECE
MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, FOR HUNT AND ROSKELL, LONDON, 1846, AFTER A DESIGN BY EDWARD HODGES BAILY
On a shaped-triangular rockwork base surmounted by a fully modeled figure of St. George slaying the dragon, the twisting stem rising to twelve foliate scroll branches and central light, each with a shaped-circular drip pan and vase-form sconce, the tripartite ebonized wood base applied with acanthus at the corners, further applied with the Russian Imperial Arms to one side, and with a shaped oval plaque with Latin presentation inscription to another, marked throughout, the base stamped HUNT AND ROSKELL, LATE STORR AND MORTIMER
45 1/2 in. (115.6 cm.) high, overall
923 oz. 18 dwt. (28,733 gr.) weighable silver

Provenance
Won by Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794 - 1865), owner of Alarm, winner of the 1846 Emperor's Plate at the Ascot Races, 1846, bequeathed in his will to,
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800 - 1870).
Property of an East Coast University; Sotheby's, New York, 14-15 June, 1978, lot 733.
The Al-Tajir Collection, by 1983.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 11 April 2003, lot 206.