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Lot Essay
The altar-tripod candlesticks with krater flower-vases on eagle monopodia relate to patterns for patinated and gilded bronze candlesticks illustrated in an early 19th Century trade catalogue issued by Messrs. G.A. Glick. Glick's patterns also featured pendant glass drops, which are missing from the palm-flowered corona on these candlesticks.
Their tripods also relate to those of iron tables invoiced in 1814 as 'bronzed Griffin tripods' when supplied by George Bullock (d. 1818) for Hinton House, near Bath. The latter bore an 1805 patent stamp taken out by George's brother William Bullock (d. 1848), who illustrated a similar table exhibited at The Egyptian Hall in his, Descriptive Synopsis of the Roman Gallery, 1816 (M. Levy, 'The Roman Gallery at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, and Some Tripods by William Bullock and George Bullock', Furniture History, 1997, pp. 229-239).
A pair of ormolu three-branch candelabra with bases of this model were advertised by Nesle, New York, in The Magazine Antiques, September 1998. A pair of candlesticks on simple marble bases were sold at Russell, Baldwin and Bright, Leominster, 19-20 August 1998, lot 859.
Their tripods also relate to those of iron tables invoiced in 1814 as 'bronzed Griffin tripods' when supplied by George Bullock (d. 1818) for Hinton House, near Bath. The latter bore an 1805 patent stamp taken out by George's brother William Bullock (d. 1848), who illustrated a similar table exhibited at The Egyptian Hall in his, Descriptive Synopsis of the Roman Gallery, 1816 (M. Levy, 'The Roman Gallery at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, and Some Tripods by William Bullock and George Bullock', Furniture History, 1997, pp. 229-239).
A pair of ormolu three-branch candelabra with bases of this model were advertised by Nesle, New York, in The Magazine Antiques, September 1998. A pair of candlesticks on simple marble bases were sold at Russell, Baldwin and Bright, Leominster, 19-20 August 1998, lot 859.