A Pair of William IV silver-gilt Candlesticks
London 1830
Height: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Weight: 78 oz (2,429 g)

Provenance: Louisa, Viscountess Beresford (d.1851) and then by descent, sold Christie's, London, 29 November 2007, lot 523; Alastair Dickenson, London
In the rococo taste, each shaped circular base cast with lion's masks, rocaille and flowers, rising to a spiraling baluster stem with removable nozzle, the base and nozzle engraved with monogram LB beneath a Viscountess's coronet.

The initials are those of Louisa Beresford (d. 1851) who married secondly William, Viscount Beresford (1768-1854), a hero of the Peninsular War.
Artist Biography:
Son of William Elliott of Warwick Lane, London plateworker, apprenticed to Richard Gardner of Silver Street Golden Square Middlesex goldsmith, Citizen and Goldsmith on payment of £7. Free, 1 April 1795. Mark entered as plateworker, in partnership with J.W. Story, 6 October 1809. Address: 25 Compton Street, Clerkenwell. Second mark, alone 7 September 1813, same address. Described as silversmith in the apprenticeship to him of James Parkin, 6 October 1819 at the same address, and still there 1823 (apprenticeship of John Evans) and 5 January 1825, when his son Richard William was also bound to him. Livery, January 1822. Died 1854.