2ND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

These decorative bronze and marble candlesticks are conceived in the French antique manner introduced around l800. Their palm-flowered and reeded krater-vase nozzles are borne by Neptune's chimerical sea-horses, celebrating the Element of Water, while dolphin bas reliefs embellish their palm-flowered marble plinths. The fashion for such objets d'art was promoted in particular by George, Prince of Wales, later George IV and his 'Furniture man' or 'marchand mercier' Benjamin Louis Vulliamy (d. l854), (V. Brett and J. Bourne Lighting in the Domestic Interior, London, l99l, p. 122, fig. 408).