A pair of Victorian silver-gilt five-light candelabra

MAKER'S MARK OF HUNT AND ROSKELL, LONDON, 1900

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A pair of Victorian silver-gilt five-light candelabra
Maker's mark of Hunt and Roskell, London, 1900
Each on shaped triangular base resting on three acanthus foliage feet supporting a basket filled with vines and grapes, the stem and lights cast and chased as tendrils supporting two infant bacchanals, one holding a cup, the other picking grapes, the lights with flower-shaped wax-pans, sockets and nozzles, engraved on plinth with crowned initial, marked on plinth, drip-pans and nozzles, stamped on plinth HUNT AND ROSKELL LATER STORR AND MORTIMER and inventory number 1963
71 cm. (28 in.) high
14,250 gr. (458 oz.)

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