Lot 759
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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU, BLUE AND CUT CLEAR GLASS FOUR-BRANCH CANDELABRA
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOTS 736 - 779)
A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU, BLUE AND CUT CLEAR GLASS FOUR-BRANCH CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1800

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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU, BLUE AND CUT CLEAR GLASS FOUR-BRANCH CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1800
Each with a vase-shaped body issuing from the top rim four scrolling foliate branches joined by a square pierced and droplet addorned rim, terminating in foliate drip-pans and spool-shaped nozzles, to the angles with cut obelisk finials and centered by a further finial suspending droplet chains and with spray surmounted by a sphere, on a waisted foot with foliate rim on a square stepped base, losses and replacements to glass, lacking some droplet chains, regilt
34 in. (87 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

A related pair of Russian candelabra with blue glass central bodies, attributed to St. Petersburg and dated 1780, is illustrated in I. Sychev, Russian Bronze, Moscow, 2002, p. 72, while a further set of four, formerly in the collection of the Counts Potocki at Lancut Castle, Poland, was sold from the collection of Lily and Edmond J. Safra, Sotheby's, New York, 1 November 2006, lot 184.

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