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AN EMPIRE PALAIS ROYAL ORMOLU AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL CHAMBER-STICK in the form of a canted column surmounted by Mercury's wings, the scrolling serpent supporting an engine-turned urn-shaped nozzle with stiff-leaf drip-pan, upon a chequered rectangular base with pierced, foliate gallery upon turned bun feet

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AN EMPIRE PALAIS ROYAL ORMOLU AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL CHAMBER-STICK in the form of a canted column surmounted by Mercury's wings, the scrolling serpent supporting an engine-turned urn-shaped nozzle with stiff-leaf drip-pan, upon a chequered rectangular base with pierced, foliate gallery upon turned bun feet
6in. (15cm.) high

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A closely related chamber-stick, supporting a painted shade with a view of Vienna by Christoph Mahlknecht (1787-1851) is illustrated in J. Bourne and V. Brett Lighting in the Domestic Interior, London 1991, p.167, fig. 561