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A SET OF THREE PERUVIAN SILVER CANDELABRA Mid 19th Century, Peru Each on four ball feet supporting a rectangular incurved dome base, rising to a baluster stem with openwork knop surmounted by a warrior standing on a lion couchant, two bird-clad scroll branches with dragon-heads issuing from his back, a turkey with articulated wings and hinged body on his head on two candelabra, the central standard of the third one with a light, the circular sockets with everted scalloped foliate rims, two bases engraved J.Z., apparently unmarked The highest 21¼in. (54cm.); 226oz. (7026gr.) (3)

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Elisa Peña