Description
A fine set of four George III cast silver candlesticks,
by John Parker and Edward Wakelin, London 1761,
tapering faceted baluster stems, gadroon shoulders and borders, spool shaped sockets, raised square bases, engraved with two armorials, numbered to under side of base 1-4, and each engraved with the scratch weight, height 26.5cm, approx. weight 110oz. (4)
Engraved with a lozenge with the arms of Frances, dowager Countess of Northampton, and an unconventional shield with the arms evidently for her sister Catherine, wife of the Very Revd. Lord Francis Seymour, was was the 4th son of the 8th Duke of Somerset.
Frances, daughter of the Revd. Thomas Payne, married (5 March 1748) the Hon. George Compton, then MP for Northampton but from 1754 6th Earl Northampton. the couple were childless when the earl died in 1758 and Frances married Claudius Almand in 1761.
