A PAIR OF NORTH EUROPEAN ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE CANDLESTICKS
A PAIR OF NORTH EUROPEAN ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE CANDLESTICKS

POSSIBLY RUSSIAN, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY, LATER CONVERTED TO LAMPS

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A PAIR OF NORTH EUROPEAN ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE CANDLESTICKS
POSSIBLY RUSSIAN, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY, LATER CONVERTED TO LAMPS
Of Empire style, each with a Greek male bust supporting on his head a stiff-leaf spreading nozzle on a tapering turned shaft headed by an eagle on thunder-bolts and with foliate scrolls, standing on a half-sphere and a drum with flute-playing putto flanked by altars and on a foliate spreading foot and square plinth, wired for electricity, one with impressed V
16 in. (41 cm.) high, excluding fitments (2)

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