Lot Essay
These candelabra were originally used with oil burners, the base would have contained the reservoir, and the burning wick would have drawn the oil up through the hollow-cast branches.
19TH CENTURY
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A pair of English ormolu three-light candelabra
19th Century
Each with central foliate shaft and down swept acanthus drip-pan and waisted and beaded nozzle, on a gadrooned and foliate platform issuing two further entwined and scrolled foliate branches, on a tapering channeled and foliate ringed support and conforming moulded circular base, the nozzles adapted
27in. (43cm.) high (2)
19th Century
Each with central foliate shaft and down swept acanthus drip-pan and waisted and beaded nozzle, on a gadrooned and foliate platform issuing two further entwined and scrolled foliate branches, on a tapering channeled and foliate ringed support and conforming moulded circular base, the nozzles adapted
27in. (43cm.) high (2)