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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU AND MALACHITE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA
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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU AND MALACHITE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1830-1840

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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU AND MALACHITE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1830-1840
Each with circular spreading ring-turned shaft cast with lotus and acanthus, and headed by a circular drip-pan and nozzle, flanked by the scrolling foliate-cast branches with conforming drip-pans and nozzles, the circular base on a square spreading moulded plinth cast with leaf tips, on shaped lotus-cast bracket feet, possibly originally with extra ties of branches, the bobèches later (2)
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Lot Essay

These splendid malachite-veneered candlebra relate to various ormolu-mounted vases and tazze in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Several of these are based on designs by I.I. Galberg, executed from the early 1820s to the mid 1840s, and those by C. Rossi, which are illustrated in V.B. Semyonov, Malachite, Sverdlovsk, 1987, pp. 112-115.
They are particularly close to the candelabra acquired in 1824 from Corbiaux's Shop in St. Petersburg which were placed in the Lilac Study of Empress Maria Fedorovna (I. Sychev, Russian Bronze, Moscow, 2003, p.131).

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