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Lot Essay
Patterns for related bronze candelabra with lion monopodia tripods were published in Henry Moses, A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, Paterae, Tripods, Candelabra, Sarcophagi, London, 1814, plates 83-86. This fashion was popularised in the early 19th Century by bronze-founders, such as Benjamin Vulliamy (d.1821) and Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (d.1854), who earned the epithet 'Furniture man' to George, Prince of Wales and later King George IV (R. Smith, 'Vulliamy and the Kinnaird candelabra', Apollo, January 1997, pp.30-34).
Messenger and Sons of Birmingham and London illustrated a related stand in their 1830's trade-card stating that they were 'Manufacturers of Chandeliers, Tripods and Lamps of every description in Bronze and Ormolu' (C. Gilbert and A. Wells-Cole, The Fashionable Fire Place, Temple Newsam, 1985, fig. 95). Such Roman Tripods were intended to support colza-oil vase candelabra.
A pair of related torcheres was sold anonymously, Christie's London, 9 July 1998, lot 4.
Messenger and Sons of Birmingham and London illustrated a related stand in their 1830's trade-card stating that they were 'Manufacturers of Chandeliers, Tripods and Lamps of every description in Bronze and Ormolu' (C. Gilbert and A. Wells-Cole, The Fashionable Fire Place, Temple Newsam, 1985, fig. 95). Such Roman Tripods were intended to support colza-oil vase candelabra.
A pair of related torcheres was sold anonymously, Christie's London, 9 July 1998, lot 4.