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A pair of Sevres-style sectional porcelain and gilt-metal mounted candlesticks
PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY
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A pair of Sevres-style sectional porcelain and gilt-metal mounted candlesticks
Probably 19th century
The barley-twist porcelain shafts painted with spiralling entwined flower and foliage garlands, beneath gilt-metal capitals with scroll volutes, the gilt-metal feet bases with guilloche ornament, on square porcelain plinths with canted edges painted with borders of oak-leaves and mounted in gilt with foliage and on four gilt-metal bun feet
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high (2)
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Lot Essay
Cf. Svend Eriksen, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (Paris, 1968), p.282, pl.102.