PROBABLY PRE 1600

Details

A Roman sculpted white marble and porphyry inlaid pedestal
Probably pre 1600
The flared dish with egg-and-dart border above a knopped and waisted column with spiral bands of mosaic inlay, the baluster section with ribbon-tied fruiting swags, on an acanthus capped triform base with panels of porphyry bordered by further mosaic
67½ in. (171.5 cm.) high, 16½ in. (42 cm.) diameter to top

Provenance

Formerly: William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (d.1925). Sold at Sothebys sale at Thornton Manor, Cheshire 26-28 June , 2001.

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Lot Essay

The tripod candelabrum with tazza-capped pillar on altar pedestal reflects the antiquarian Roman taste promoted by the architect G.B.Piranesi's Vasi, candelabra, cippi, sarcophagi, tripodi, Rome, 1778, and popularised in the early l9th century by various publications such as by J.N.L.Durand Recueil et parallele des edifices.., 1802; T.Hope, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 and H.Moses Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, Paterae, Tripods, Candelabra, Sarcophagi etc., 1814.
Related candelabra recorded in the early l9th century in the collections of the connoisseur Thomas Hope at Duchess Street, London and Deepdene, Surrey are now in the Lady Lever Art Gallery (G.Waywell, The Lever and Hope Sculptures, Berlin, 1986).

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