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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRONZE, STEEL AND WHITE MARBLE CANDLESTICKS

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRONZE, STEEL AND WHITE MARBLE CANDLESTICKS
Each with a putto, one standing by a boar's head, the other by a deer's head, supporting a ribbon-tied spear issuing three hunting-horn candlebranches, the cylindrical spreading plinth with laurel-wreath banding on a square base
22¼ in. (56.5 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

A pair of candelabra of closely related design is illustrated in G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor; Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, London, 1974, vol. II, pp. 698-699, cat. 170, with a further pair was sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 5 November 1992, lot 273.

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