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A PAIR OF BRAZILIAN SILVER CANDLESTICKS
18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BAHIA
Each on a tripod scroll base, each scroll with a cast cherub's head and raised on a ball-and-claw foot, the sides of the base repousse with a cartouche within stylized foliage, rising to a triagular plinth with ovolo molding supporting a baluster with applied sawtooth decoration and a spirally-fluted column chased with foliage and with a scrolled capital, rising to a circular wax-pan chased with acanthus and with a baluster-form socket, the interior with an iron support rod, apparently unmarked--23 1/4 in. (59 cm.) high
(gross weight 247 oz.) (2)
18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BAHIA
Each on a tripod scroll base, each scroll with a cast cherub's head and raised on a ball-and-claw foot, the sides of the base repousse with a cartouche within stylized foliage, rising to a triagular plinth with ovolo molding supporting a baluster with applied sawtooth decoration and a spirally-fluted column chased with foliage and with a scrolled capital, rising to a circular wax-pan chased with acanthus and with a baluster-form socket, the interior with an iron support rod, apparently unmarked--23 1/4 in. (59 cm.) high
(gross weight 247 oz.) (2)