A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1825
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A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Circa 1825
Each in the form of Mercury holding aloft scrolling foliate candlearms with leaf-tip-cast nozzles, on a domed cylindrical plinth cast with cornucopiae and a caduceus, on a square stepped base
20in. (52cm.) high (2)
Lot Essay
The bronze figure of Mercury is after the bronze statuette by Giambologna (circa 1588) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.