A PAIR OF REGENCY ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

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A PAIR OF REGENCY ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Each with a hobnail-cut and faceted baluster column supporting a pair of up-curved foliate branches with pendant-hung drip-pans and leaf-wrapped nozzles, flanking a column with conforming drip-pan, on a circular base with paw-feet, with six removable drip-pans, restorations and replacements to the glass, restorations and replacements
23 in. (58.5 cm.) high; 14 in. (35.5 cm.) wide; 5 in. (12.5 cm.) deep (2)

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

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These glass lights, conceived in the manner of Roman candelabra popularised by G.B. Piranesi's engravings, are ormolu-enriched in the early 19th Century French fashion. With their tazza-supported 'krater' vases, acanthus-budded pillars, and drum-plinths with bacchic lion-paw feet, they reflect the antique style promoted by Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807.
A related 'girandole' manufactured by Messrs Pellatt and Green of St Paul's Churchyard was illustrated and described as 'peculiarly elegant' in the 1821 edition of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, and others executed by the Ludgate Hill glass-manufacturer John Blades, feature in the illustration of his 'Upper Show Room' published in 1823 (see back cover illustration of Country House Lighting, Temple Newsam House Studies no. 4, Leeds, 1992).