THE RABY EPERGNE, A LARGE GEORGE III AND VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT CANDELABRA EPERGNE THE FRAME, CANOPY, BASKETS AND DISHES WITH MARK OF THOMAS PITTS, LONDON, 1762, THE BRANCHES, CANOPY SUPPORTS, FINIAL AND APPLIED FIGURES AND CARTOUCHES, UNMARKED, CIRCA...

The openwork frame on four scroll and foliate feet, the apron cast and chased with scrolls, flowers and foliage, with detachable pierced boat shape basket above, with vine border and four leaf-capped scroll branches terminating in detachable shaped circular dishes, with four vine and winged putti branches terminating in two grapevine drip pans and campana form scones and vine nozzles, the winged putti each holding a pierced sweetmeat basket, the open canopy on four vine and putto supports, and hung with fines and applied with dancing Bacchic putti, the detachable finial with drunken putti surrounding a goat, the frame applied with two vacant shield-shaped cartouches with Royal crown above, marked on frame canopy, baskets and dishes, the branches, canopy supports, finial applied figures and cartouches unmarked, branches and finial supports numbered
33 in. (84 cm.) high
667 oz. (20,757 gr.)

Provenance
Removed from Raby Castle.
Henry John Neville Vane, 11th Baron Barnard (1923 - 2016), sold,
Christie's, London, 15 July 1975, lot 147.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 March 1999, lot 94.