Lot 101
101
A COALPORT THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRUM of elaborate pierced scroll-moulded outline enriched in gilding and applied with trailing brightly coloured flowers, supporting three foliage-moulded wax-pans and vase-shaped nozzles, on a shaped oval four-footed base moulded with shell and C-scrolls and enriched in gilding (two nozzles restored through lower parts, restoration to upper scroll support, hairline cracks and minor chips and restorations to flowers and foliage), circa 1835

Details
A COALPORT THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRUM of elaborate pierced scroll-moulded outline enriched in gilding and applied with trailing brightly coloured flowers, supporting three foliage-moulded wax-pans and vase-shaped nozzles, on a shaped oval four-footed base moulded with shell and C-scrolls and enriched in gilding (two nozzles restored through lower parts, restoration to upper scroll support, hairline cracks and minor chips and restorations to flowers and foliage), circa 1835
39.5cm. high
Provenance
Boothman-Smallwood Collection, sale Christie's South Kensington, 26-27 April, 1989, lot 1050

Lot Essay

Cf. Geoffrey A. Godden, Encyclopedia of British Pottery and Porcelain, p. 101 for the design of a candelabrum of this type

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