Lot 9
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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE CANDLESTICKS
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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE CANDLESTICKS

EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MOSCOW

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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE CANDLESTICKS
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MOSCOW
Each with faceted tapering stem decorated with maiden's masks and headed by a lotus and palmette decorated nozzle with gadrooned circular drip pan, above paw feet resting on a sphere and a circular spreading foot with a lotus-flower and palmette ring
12¾ in. (32.5 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

These candlesticks are part of a relatively unknown group of decorative objects, which is traditionally associated with Moscow bronze work (I. Sychev, The Russian Chandeliers 1760-1830, Moscow, 2003, pp. 189-192, figs. 968-969). An identical pair is at Arkhangelskoye near Moscow, in the Prince's Study or Third Corner Room, which was decorated between 1810 and 1820 with a suite of ormolu-mounted Karelian birch furniture (V. Rapoport, Arkhangelskoye, Leningrad, 1984, fig. 49).

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