A PAIR OF RUSSIAN BRONZE AND GILT-BRONZE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1830

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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN BRONZE AND GILT-BRONZE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1830
Each in the form of figure of Father Time supporting a vase with three foliate branches, the pans, nozzles and the slender upright cast with guilloche, the conforming plinth with a square base stamped 'MCC'
30 in. (76 cm.) high

Lot Essay

An almost identical pair of candelabra are illustrated in Igor Sychev, Russian lighting fixtures of the Classicist period 1760-1830,[translated from the Russian] P.V.B.R. St Petersburg, 2003, p. 192, cats 973-976).

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