© Grosvenor Museum
Pair of 'Lyon-faced' candlesticks
Artist: Matthew Boulton (1728 - 1809), John Fothergill
Location: Grosvenor Museum
Date: 1769-1770
Materials: silver
Dimensions: height: 32.5cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £4,973 (Total: £19,893)
Vendor: Partridge Fine Arts
Review number: 5089 (2002)
Provenance:
Sir John Nelthorpe; by descent to Executors of Colonel Roger Sutton Nelthrope of Scawby Hall, Lincolnshire; Sotheby's, 2002; Partridge Fine Arts plc.
Description:
Two candlesticks from a set of four made during the time when there was no assay office in Birmingham. Boulton and Fothergill had to send all their silver to Chester, 72 miles away, to be assayed. The design is said to have been inspired by Boulton's travels in France in 1765 and quickly became very desirable. The other 2 candlesticks are in Soho House, Birmingham.
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