/internal/media/dispatcher/1561251/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailCenterpiece candelabrum1816 (centerpiece); 1819 (branches)John FlaxmanWilliam TheedPaul StorrPhilip RundellRundell, Bridge & RundellOverall: 102.9 × 55.9 × 55.9 cm (40 1/2 × 22 × 22 in.)Silver giltMuseum purchase with funds donated anonymously in honor of Thomas S. Michie2018.21081The stem formed as Mercury descending through a cluster of grapevines, delivering the infant Bacchus to the Nymphs of Nysa, each a fully modeled figure in classical dress, on a circular plinth supported by acanthus leaves flanked by three fully-modeled figures of seated Bacchic panthers, or lions, on an incurved triangular base with shell and foliate apron on three scroll and shell feet. The twelve-light branches have six bifurcated scrolling-vine branches, each terminating in two sockets with removable nozzles, the center formed as an acanthus calyx, the base engraved on three sides with a coat-of-arms within acanthus mantling, the nozzles each engraved with a crest, with wood support under base, marked throughout; the base stamped RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS ET PRINCIPIS WALLIAE
REGENTIS BRITANNIAS. The coat and arms and crest are those of Sutton for Sir Richard Sutton, 2d Baronet, who married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Burton of Burton Hall, County Carlow.Silver102.870205740455.880111760266691801