A PAIR OF GEORGE IV ORMOLU TWO-BRANCH COLZA-OIL CANDELABRA

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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV ORMOLU TWO-BRANCH COLZA-OIL CANDELABRA
Each with foliage-clasped column issuing tiers of upspringing foliage, with a pair of scrolled candle-branches with foliate nozzles and drip- pans, with later urn-shaped glass shades, below a foliate-finialled and banded urn reservoir, on a stepped circular base with laurel-wreath band, one with parts numbered '1', the other with parts numbered '2', fitted for electricity (2)

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Lot Essay

The candelabra's festive thyrsus-finialed and urn-capped pillars, enriched with palms and poetic 'Apollo' laurel-wreaths, are designed in the George IV 'French' or 'Louis Quatorze' manner. With their acanthus-wrapped branches, they relate to colza lamps supplied by Thomas Messenger & Sons, after their establishment in Birmingham and London in 1826 as manufacturers of 'Chandeliers, Tripods and Lamps of Every description in bronze and ormolu'. One of their chandeliers in this French style is illustrated in their trade-sheet (Country House Lighting, exh. cat., Temple Newsam Country House Studies, No. 4, 1992, p. 140, fig. 95).

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