Lot 220
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A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL ORMOLU AND PATINATED BROZE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA
A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL ORMOLU AND PATINATED BROZE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA

POSSIBLY RUSSIAN, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

Details
A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL ORMOLU AND PATINATED BROZE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Possibly Russian, first half 19th Century
Each formed as draped classical figures upholding a floral cornucopia issuing trumpet-form branches cast with anthemia, flowers and wheat motifs, raised on a cylindrical ormolu plinth cast with wheat bundles bound with a flower garland, on square bases
33in. (84cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

A virtually identical pair of candelabra was sold Sotheby's London, Russian sale, 14-15 December 1995, lot 770. The motif of the bundle of wheat relates to a giltwood armchair designed by Rusca (circa 1805-6) in the Hermitage, illustrated in T. Sokolova, Russian Furniture in the Collection of the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, 1973, figs. 115 & 186.