This pair of c1770 cast, chased and engraved Dublin George III candlesticks by the Dublin maker Richard Williams made a hammer price of €40,000 at auction in Germany on November 1. They were sold at Auktionshaus Owl at Bielefeld. The richly decorated baluster shafts feature disc nodes, vase-shaped sockets, and round bases on square, slightly profiled plinths. Each candlestick is lavishly decorated with acanthus leaves, palmettes, fluting, oblique lines, meander bands, and beaded edges and bears the seated Hibernia mark, the Dublin city mark of a crowned harp, the date letter “X,” and the maker’s mark “R·W” on the rim. The bases are engraved with weights in ozs “42-19” and “41-12,” respectively. Each candlestick measures 34.2 cm in height.
