OBJECTS OF ART, FURNITURE AND TAPESTRIES THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A PAIR OF GEORGE IV ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA

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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Each with hob-nail cut-glass shaft surmounted by an imbricated columnar pedestal and flaming-urn finial issuing two scrolled branches with grotesque terminals with circular lobed drip-pans hung with circular and needle drops and with bulbous hob-nail-cut nozzles and cirular flared drip-pans, on circular stepped spreading base, one drip-pan chipped, restorations and replacements
10½in. (27cm.) wide, 13in. (36cm.) high (2)

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).

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