A large late Georgian Sheffield silver plate candelabrum. Second quarter 19th century. Of six lights arranged as five on outswept branches around a central light, all raised on a baluster stem with triangular base with ebonised wood plinth, modelled throughout with foliate details, the base engraved with the coat of arms of Lane impaling Bagot. 63 cm high. Provenance: probably John Newton Lane (1800-1869), King's Bromley, Staffordshire. Christie's, decorative Arts, Melbourne, 30-31 October 2001, lot 449 (illustrated, unsold). Graham Geddes Antiques, Melbourne, form whom acquired by the vendor in March 2006. Other notes: the coat of arms engraved on the candelabrum represents the Union of John Newton Lane and the Hon, Agnes Bagot who married in 1828