Lot 36
36
A PAIR OF SWEDISH ORMOLU, WHITE MARBLE AND CUT-GLASS FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA, the central shaft surmounted by a berried finial and supporting four spirally-fluted scroll branches, each hung with a canopy of drops, the scroll candle-branches with turned nozzles and drip-pans hung with drops, linked by swags of drops, on a turned column and stepped square base, late 18th Century

Details
A PAIR OF SWEDISH ORMOLU, WHITE MARBLE AND CUT-GLASS FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA, the central shaft surmounted by a berried finial and supporting four spirally-fluted scroll branches, each hung with a canopy of drops, the scroll candle-branches with turned nozzles and drip-pans hung with drops, linked by swags of drops, on a turned column and stepped square base, late 18th Century
12in. (31cm.) wide; 32in. (81cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Bought from Norman Adams at the Antique Dealers' Fair, Grosvenor House, 1960, and invoiced on 13 June for #1,500

Lot Essay

A related set of candelabra, from Prince Frederick Adolf's Inner Salon in the Royal Palace, Stockholm, are illustrated in H. Groth, Neo-Classicism in the North, London, 1990, pp. 26-27, fig. 10 and a further comparable pair in H. Parrott Bacot, Nineteenth Century Lighting, West Chester, 1980, fig. 155
A similar pair of candelabra were sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 25 October 1991, lot 78

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