Lot 35
35
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU, BRONZE, CUT-GLASS AND COLOURED GLASS TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA, each with a youth supporting two scrolling branches with acorn finial and terminating in shaped drip-pans and faceted and urn-shaped nozzles, on a stepped circular foot, losses and replacements, one lead weight stamped RESTORED BY DELOMOSNE FEBRUARY 1971

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU, BRONZE, CUT-GLASS AND COLOURED GLASS TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA, each with a youth supporting two scrolling branches with acorn finial and terminating in shaped drip-pans and faceted and urn-shaped nozzles, on a stepped circular foot, losses and replacements, one lead weight stamped RESTORED BY DELOMOSNE FEBRUARY 1971
17½in. (45cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The bronze torch-bearing youths on Grecian-stepped plinths are designed in the George III 'French' manner of the 1790s. Another pair with this model of torch-bearing putti is illustrated in H. P. Bacot, Lighting, Candle-powered Devices: 1783-1883, West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1987, p. 124, fig. 176. Similar glass vase-shaped nozzles with 'Van Dyke' crenellations on starred tazzas feature on contemporary Wedgwood candlesticks (see R. Reilly, Wedgwood, London, 1989, vol. I, pl. C177

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