A REGENCY ORMOLU SIX-BRANCH CANDELABRUM by Rundell, Bridge and Rundell with flowerhead-chased circlet, supported by three scantily draped maidens, each holding aloft a branch of fruit and foliage issuing two removable S-scroll candle-branches with gadrooned nozzles, on a concave-sided triangular plinth with central dolphin, supported by three winged sphinxes on a conforming plinth edged with lappeted foliage, on winged paw feet, stamped indistinctly Rundell Bridge & Rundell Aurifices Regis Princepis Wallia Londini Fecerunt, the gilding partly refreshed, the branches removable to convert to a centrepiece, lacking bowl

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A REGENCY ORMOLU SIX-BRANCH CANDELABRUM by Rundell, Bridge and Rundell with flowerhead-chased circlet, supported by three scantily draped maidens, each holding aloft a branch of fruit and foliage issuing two removable S-scroll candle-branches with gadrooned nozzles, on a concave-sided triangular plinth with central dolphin, supported by three winged sphinxes on a conforming plinth edged with lappeted foliage, on winged paw feet, stamped indistinctly Rundell Bridge & Rundell Aurifices Regis Princepis Wallia Londini Fecerunt, the gilding partly refreshed, the branches removable to convert to a centrepiece, lacking bowl
28in. (71cm.) high

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The tripod centrepiece, composed of three nymphs bearing fruit-filled cornucopiae from which emerge serpentined and bifurcating branches for candelabra. The addorsed figures stand on a plinth that is centred by a dolphin and supported on winged sphynxes with serpent tails.
While the figures derive from Louis XVI candelabra models, the tripod pedestal reflects the 19th Century 'antique' style promoted by goldsmiths such as Paul Storr (d.1844) who was in partnership with Messrs. Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, goldsmiths to George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV.

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