A PAIR OF REGENCY ORMOLU SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA AND STANDS

BY RUNDELL BRIDGE AND RUNDELL, CIRCA 1802 - 1806

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A PAIR OF REGENCY ORMOLU SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA AND STANDS
BY RUNDELL BRIDGE AND RUNDELL, CIRCA 1802 - 1806
Each with three Egyptian herm supports with plaques with hieroglyphics surmounted by a concave-sided platform with wings and two tiers of scrolling and leaf-capped branches with paterae and terminating in spreading nozzles and inset drip-pans, divided by Egyptian masks and centered by a flaming torch, above the tripartite base with sphinx supports and on a concave-sided triangular base with milled panels and on lion paw feet, variously numbered, one lotus leaf lacking gilding; the stands with a triple-stepped circular platform with milled band and rope-twist edge, with three draped coat-of-arms of the Duke of Richmond, on lion-headed double paw feet, numbered
29½ in. (75 cm.) high (4)

Provenance

(Almost certainly) supplied circa 1802 - 1806 to Charles, 3rd Duke of Richmond (1735 - 1806) for the Egyptian Dining Room at Goodwood House, Sussex.
Thence by descent and removed to Gordon Castle, Scotland.
Frederick Charles, 9th Duke of Richmond and Gordon (1904 - 1989), Gordon Castle; Christie's, London, 20 July 1938, lot 152 (together with the other pair of candelabra and stands, lot 527 in this sale).

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE for the Royal set of four candelabra:
P. Conner ed., exhibition catalogue, The Inspiration of Egypt, Brighton, 1983, p. 45, cat. 85.
J.-M. Humbert et al., exhibition catalogue, Egyptomania, Paris, 1994, pp. 304 - 305. cat. 181.
M. Evans, exhibition catalogue, Princes and Patrons, London, 1998, p. 109, cat. 108.
J. Rutherford, The Prince's Passion. The Life of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, 2003, p. 133.

Please see note to lot 527.

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