Twelve-light candelabrum

Inscription: Monogram: (on finial; on sockets s-y) E D C with prince's coronet above

Inscribed (around base, in Greek) AIOKAHTIANON. TON. METICTON / MO..OC. EMAPXOC. AITYHTOY / TON...P..TATON. AYTOKPATOPA, TON. MOAIOYXON. AAEEANAPEIAC
(trans: Pos(eidi)os, Governor of Egypt, (set up this statue of) Diocletian the most (holy) Emperor, the protector of Alexandria, the most great.)

(On front and back of base) GIR within garter with royal crown: above: 15th or King's / Hussars: below, on ribbon: EMSDORF (this was therefore probably put on between the date of George V's accession to the throne and 1922.)

Marking: Marks on candelabrum:
[1] Lion passant (English quality mark for sterling);
[2] anchor (Birmingham town mark);
[3] Small Roman h (Birmingham date letter for 1805–6);
[4] King's head (duty paid mark);
[5] M B (maker's mark for Matthew Boulton).

Location of marks:
[1]–[5] on base; on finial; on square section of end of arms (f) and (h); on socket (s) (mark [3] faint, mark [5] semi-struck);
[1]–[4] on sockets (t-v) (one illegible mark on (t), possibly mark [5]);
[1], [3]–[5] on square section end of arm (d);
[3], [5] on square section end of arm (j) (also two illegible marks)

Marks on sockets:
[6] Leopard's head (London assay office mark);
[7] small black letter c (London date letter for 1858–59);
[8] small black letter r (London date letter for 1872–73);
[9] Lion passant (English quality mark for sterling);
[10] Queen's head (duty mark);
[11] I S H crowned (maker's mark for John S. Hunt, entered 1844);
[12] R G crowned (maker's mark for Robert Garrard, entered 1821)

Location of marks:
[6], [7], [9]–[11] on sockets (z), (aa–cc);
[6], [8], [9], [10], [12] on socket (dd)

The Fifteenth Regiment (King's Regiment of Hussars), Great Britain ; Ernest Augustus I, King of Hanover, Duke of Cumberland ; Rupert L. Joseph (until 1959; bequeathed to MMA)