THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (Lots 238-239)
A PAIR OF ORMOLU, BLUE AND GOLD PAINTED GLASS AND CUT-GLASS TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA
ENGLISH, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF ORMOLU, BLUE AND GOLD PAINTED GLASS AND CUT-GLASS TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA
English, First Half 19th Century
Each with a pyramidal central support surmounted by a cut-glass finial and bowl issuing hanging drops with two scrolling candlebranches with shaped drip-pans hung with drops and shaped facetted nozzles, with two serpentine branches to the rear hung with drops on a lapetted support and concave sided quadrapartite stepped base with painted foliage deoration, on bun feet, one stamped '9A', '1B','O','8D', and the other stamped '5I', '4K', '3L', and '2M', one branch broken, some losses and replacements, restorations (2)
English, First Half 19th Century
Each with a pyramidal central support surmounted by a cut-glass finial and bowl issuing hanging drops with two scrolling candlebranches with shaped drip-pans hung with drops and shaped facetted nozzles, with two serpentine branches to the rear hung with drops on a lapetted support and concave sided quadrapartite stepped base with painted foliage deoration, on bun feet, one stamped '9A', '1B','O','8D', and the other stamped '5I', '4K', '3L', and '2M', one branch broken, some losses and replacements, restorations (2)
Sale room notice
One of the candelabra has been damaged on view. The pair of candelabra will be sold in their present broken condition and the estimate has been reduced accordingly.
The damages are as follows:
A chip to the top canopy.
The brass screwed top of the central needle has broken off.
One of the snakes has broken at the base where it joins the body.
One of the candle-branches has broken in two places.
One nozzle has chips to the edges.
The damages are as follows:
A chip to the top canopy.
The brass screwed top of the central needle has broken off.
One of the snakes has broken at the base where it joins the body.
One of the candle-branches has broken in two places.
One nozzle has chips to the edges.