Lot 4
4
The Property of the late MR. THEODORE CROMBIE AND MRS. ELSIE CROMBIE Sold by Order of the Executors
A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED MOULDED GLASS TWIN-LIGHT CANDELABRA of Regency style, each with central scalloped tapering triangular shaft surmounted by a replaced crescent finial and hung with drops, with shepherd's-crook branches linked by swags of drops to downscrolled candle-branches, with scalloped drip-pans and urn-shaped nozzles, on a spreading rectangular blue glass plinth gilt-decorated with stylised foliage and scrolls, on a concave-sided square base and ball feet, late 19th/early 20th Century (2)

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED MOULDED GLASS TWIN-LIGHT CANDELABRA of Regency style, each with central scalloped tapering triangular shaft surmounted by a replaced crescent finial and hung with drops, with shepherd's-crook branches linked by swags of drops to downscrolled candle-branches, with scalloped drip-pans and urn-shaped nozzles, on a spreading rectangular blue glass plinth gilt-decorated with stylised foliage and scrolls, on a concave-sided square base and ball feet, late 19th/early 20th Century (2)

Lot Essay

A candelabra with part-gilded emerald-green base of very similar narrow waisted shape and on an apparently identical ormolu base is attributed to Waterford and illustrated in F.Lewis Hinckley, Queen Anne & Georgian Looking Glasses, New York, 1987, p.239, pl.213, no.304.

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