A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED CANDELABRA modelled after a Meissen original, the lower sections formed as two cherubins painted in flesh colour, loosely swathed in an iron-red and gilt cloth, clinging to a tree trunk, painted and moulded in tones of sepia and applied with flower-sprays (some restoration), late 18th Century | Christie's

Lot 139 B

139 B

A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED CANDELABRA modelled after a Meissen original, the lower sections formed as two cherubins painted in flesh colour, loosely swathed in an iron-red and gilt cloth, clinging to a tree trunk, painted and moulded in tones of sepia and applied with flower-sprays (some restoration), late 18th Century

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED CANDELABRA modelled after a Meissen original, the lower sections formed as two cherubins painted in flesh colour, loosely swathed in an iron-red and gilt cloth, clinging to a tree trunk, painted and moulded in tones of sepia and applied with flower-sprays (some restoration), late 18th Century
overall 50.5cm. high (2)

Lot Essay

J.G.Phillips, op.cit., p.197, pl.96 for a very similar example with fruit basket

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