Details
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILT-BRONZE TWO-BRANCH CANDELABRA, each with central foliate cast urn-shaped nozzle garlanded with berried swags and surmounted by a berried finial, issuing two foliate cast scrolled branches with stiff-leaf cast drip-pans and nozzles, the entrelac and rosette collar above a pierced tapering husk-trailed body, on domed, berried foliate cast stepped circular beaded socle
15¾in. (40cm) high; 9¾in. (24.5cm) wide (2)
15¾in. (40cm) high; 9¾in. (24.5cm) wide (2)
Provenance
Probably baron Gustave de Rothschild (1829-1911), 23 Avenue Marigny, Paris
Thence by descent to his granddaughter Sybil, Marchioness of Cholmondeley
Thence by descent to his granddaughter Sybil, Marchioness of Cholmondeley
Literature
H. Avray Tipping, English Homes, Period V, Vol. I, Early Georgian, 1714-60, London, 1921, p. 85, fig. 112 (illustrated in situ in the Blue Damask Bedchamber)
H. Avray Tipping, 'Houghton Hall III', Country Life, 15 January 1921, p. 66 (illustrated in the South West Chamber/Blue Damask Bedchamber)
H. Avray Tipping, 'Houghton Hall III', Country Life, 15 January 1921, p. 66 (illustrated in the South West Chamber/Blue Damask Bedchamber)