Noble & Private Collections Including Property from Corby Castle, Cumbria, and Marco Voena’s London Pied-à-Terre

Noble & Private Collections Including Property from Corby Castle, Cumbria, and Marco Voena’s London Pied-à-Terre

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Property from a West Country manor house

A set of four George III silver candlesticks, Richard Cooke, London, 1801

Live auction begins on:

November 19, 01:30 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Bid

4,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

The circular base with gadroon borders and fluted stems, the nozzles with removable drip-pans, engraved with a coat-of-arms,


32cm, 12½in. high

3050gr., 98oz

The arms are those of Blackett quartering Douglas impaling Keene for William Blackett (1759–1816) who was born at Matfen Hall, Stamfordham, Northumberland, the son of Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Bt., and his wife, Anne, daughter of Oley Douglas. He succeeded to the title as 5th Bt. upon the death of his father in 1804. Educated at Trinity College, Oxford, he was married to Mary Anne, daughter of Benjamin Keene in 1801, by whom he had five sons and two daughters. He was High Sheriff of Northumberland from 1807 to 1808 and died in 816.

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