Lot Essay
The ormolu-enriched candelabra are embellished with flaming-urns in the French antique manner, while their columnar shafts are cut with a band of pine-cone lozenges matching the spherical candle-vases. Related candelabra were manufactured in the first decade of the 19th Century by John Blades of Ludgate Hill 'Glass Manufacturer' to King George III (J. Bourne, Lighting in the Domestic Interior, London, 1991, fig. 570).