A PAIR OF GLASS-MOUNTED ORMOLU TWIN-LIGHT CANDELABRA
A PAIR OF GLASS-MOUNTED ORMOLU TWIN-LIGHT CANDELABRA

ELEMENTS 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GLASS-MOUNTED ORMOLU TWIN-LIGHT CANDELABRA
ELEMENTS 19TH CENTURY
Each with scroll branches about the baluster-shaped clear glass bodies with traces of blue-colouring and faceted spires and everted finials issuing beaded pendants, further swags of pendants overall, white marble bases
23 in. (58.4 cm.) high; 20 in. (50.8 cm.) wide; 8 in. (20.3 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Moss Harris & Sons, New Oxford Street, London, where acquired as 'Pair of old glass and ormolu 2 light candelabras with blue glass shaped vase centres, stepped bases and glass spires' (£35).
Literature
C. Hussey, 'Avenue House, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, The Residence of Prof. A.E. Richardson, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A.', Country Life, 8 December 1934, p. 615, illustrated in The Saloon.
J. Cornforth, The Inspiration of the Past: Country House Taste in the Twentieth Century, London, 1986, p. 57, fig. 52, illustrated in The Saloon.

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