A PAIR OF ORMOLU AND BRONZE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA, each in the form of a dancing maiden standing on an orb holding an amphora above her head, issuing five scrolling foliate-cast branches terminating in bearded-masks with laurel-cast turned drip-pans and nozzles, on a verde antico plinth mounted with a torch-bearing winged maiden supported by sea-horses and flanked by laurel-bound caduciae, on a lotus-leaf stepped spreading base, drilled for electricity, second half 19th Century, one arm broken

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU AND BRONZE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA, each in the form of a dancing maiden standing on an orb holding an amphora above her head, issuing five scrolling foliate-cast branches terminating in bearded-masks with laurel-cast turned drip-pans and nozzles, on a verde antico plinth mounted with a torch-bearing winged maiden supported by sea-horses and flanked by laurel-bound caduciae, on a lotus-leaf stepped spreading base, drilled for electricity, second half 19th Century, one arm broken
37¾in. (96cm.) high, excluding fitments (2)

Lot Essay

A related pair with similar winged figure, and identical branches was sold in these Rooms, 20 October 1972, lot 116.

A further related pair was sold Christie's Sacombe Park House Sale, 11 October 1993, lot 24

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