Fourteen Louis Xvi Silver Candlesticks from Empress Catherine Ii of

Each on circular base with laurel border, rising to fluted dome, the baluster stems applied with chute-de-piastre , the nozzles partly fluted, with prick-engraved Cyrillic initials and stamped with inventory numbers '1' for the ones dated 1782, '11' for the one dated 1779 and '20' for the ones dated 1778, '1' also pricked with 'No 1', '11' pricked with Cyrillic initials for Kazan, '20' pricked with Cyrillic initials for Nizhni-Novgorod; three nozzles stamped 20 , o ne pricked with Cyrillic initials for Kazan and one for Nizhni-Novgorod ; the candlesticks marked underneath and in sockets: charge, date-letters (p,q and T) and maker; on foot-rims: decharge; the nozzles: five with charge, date-letter (q), maker and decharge; two with decharge mark only; two unmarked; three with St Petersburg marks; all with later French control mark

Estimate:£70,000

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