19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU SIX-BRANCH CANDELABRA
19th Century
Each with a fluted spreading column with acanthus-clasps and lappeted and acanthus capital, issuing scrolled serpentine candlebranches with lappeted drip-pans and foliate nozzles on scrolled acanthus feet and a concave-sided tripartite base, on scrolled feet and shaped apron, lacking one nozzle
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Related antique candelabrum patterns, with altar-tripod plinths, feature in a metal-worker's pattern-book of the George IV period preserved at the Victoria & Albert Musuem (J. Bourne, Lighting, London, 1991, fig. 577).

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