A PAIR OF CUT-GLASS, ORMOLU AND BLUE AND WHITE JASPER CANDLESTICKS

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THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF MISS JULIA LOWENTHAL SOLD ON BEHALF OF THE GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND ASSOCIATION

A PAIR OF CUT-GLASS, ORMOLU AND BLUE AND WHITE JASPER CANDLESTICKS

LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY, OF GEORGE III STYLE

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A PAIR OF CUT-GLASS, ORMOLU AND BLUE AND WHITE JASPER CANDLESTICKS
LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY, OF GEORGE III STYLE
Each with tulip-shaped nozzle and Van Dyck drip-pan hung with lemon-glass coloured discs and further teardrop-shaped droplets, on a baluster shaft and waisted socle, the pedestal with scenes after the Antique in the Wedgwood manner, on a moulded stepped plinth, losses and replacements to the cut-glass droplets, the base of one nozzle stamped 'B 3'
12¼ in. (31 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

The candlesticks, with vase-capped pillars, are designed in the George III Roman fashion; while their 'altar' plinths display golden 'Apollo' sunburst medallions in sky blue tablets. These orb-supported plinths correspond to the 1781 'patent' base introduced by the celebrated glass manufacturer William Parker and closely related plinths feature on a set of candelabra that have been dated to the 1790s (M. Mortimer, The English Glass Chandelier, Woodbridge, 2000, pls. 6 and 55).

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