A pair of George III gilt bronze and cut glass candlesticks, the faceted petal form sconces and wide, shaped drip pans hung with tiers of lustres and beads, the bulbous columns with cut diaper pattern bands, on circular socles, the rectangular blue glass plinths with cavetto mouldings and ball feet -- 14¼in. (36.2cm.) high (2)

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A pair of George III gilt bronze and cut glass candlesticks, the faceted petal form sconces and wide, shaped drip pans hung with tiers of lustres and beads, the bulbous columns with cut diaper pattern bands, on circular socles, the rectangular blue glass plinths with cavetto mouldings and ball feet -- 14¼in. (36.2cm.) high (2)

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Such ornamental candlesticks may have been retailed through the famous glass retailer William Parker of Fleet Street, who submitted in 1781 a patent method for 'Making pedestals . . . for candlestick . . . variously ornamented' and applying them to plinths.

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