Benjamin Smith II - Rundell, Bridge & Rundell Pair of gilt silver candelabra Round gadrooned base surmounted by a doucine engraved with a double ducal coat of arms (the one on the right being the house of Comares de Cordova) and a motto 'Vincitor in Navas de Tolosa', referring to one of the battles of the Reconquista dated 1212 Sheathed shaft resting on four pairs of feet and finished with four bacchante heads, the upper part aligning three lights horizontally arranged on two symmetrical arms with foliage scrolls each surrounding a rosette Later mercury gilding Master silversmith: Benjamin Smith II London 1807-1808 Hallmarks: goldsmith 'BS' - city lion passant - crowned leopard's head - date letter 'M' - Guarantee hallmark (left profile) Engraved on the bases 'Rundell Bridge et Rundell Aurifices Regis et Principis Walliae Londini Fecerunt' (difficult to read) Height 41cm Total gross weight: approx. 5100g Related works: - Sotheby's New-York sale, 22 October 1993, catalogue P. 316 - Gervase Jackson-Stops, The Treasure Houses of Britain: 500 Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting, 1985, p 524 for a similar model - Sotheby's sale 'Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics', 4 April 2023, lot 53, for a suite of four.