A PAIR OF VICTORIAN ORMOLU SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA

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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN ORMOLU SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Each with a rococo-style top section with a central flowerhead and foliage-encrusted shaft and five scroll branches with C-scroll and rockwork-encrusted nozzles, the neoclassical lower section with baluster shaft hung with swags with an open tripod base hung with swags and a canted circular base, fitted for electricity and with fringed pleated silk shade
40¼ in. (102 cm.) high, excluding fittings or shade (2)

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VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer’s premium.

Lot Essay

The striking early neoclassicism of the lower sections of these candelabra is inspired by French designs of around 1760, for example a pedestal by Philippe Caffieri that he supplied to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in that year. That model is illustrated in S. Eriksen, Early Neo-Classicism in France, London, 1974, fig. 204.

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