Pair of George II silver candlesticks, Gurney & Cooke, London, 1734 , square-shaped, with knopped stems, the bases engraved with a coat-of-arms (probably Stroude) within scrolling cartouches; height: 16.5cm; 6 1/2 in., weight: 738gr., 23oz. 14dwt., condition: a little worn, base of the stem to one restored with reinforced plate underneath, fully marked on undersides, lion passant marks only on sconces. Provenance: from the collection of Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe, West Horsley Place. See Garrard & Company Ltd., The Marchioness of Crewe, Inventory of Plate at West Horsley, 20 December 1950, p. 6.