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    17 March 1999

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    Lot 79

    A pair of German silver-gilt two-light candelabra

    MAKER'S MARK OF FRIEDRICH JAKOB BILLEN, AUGSBURG, 1810

    Price realised

    GBP 21,850

    Estimate

    GBP 25,000 - GBP 35,000

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    A pair of German silver-gilt two-light candelabra
    maker's mark of Friedrich Jakob Billen, Augsburg, 1810
    Each on oval plinth cast and chased with a band of grotesque swans, rosettes, acanthus and scrolls on a matted ground, with foliage borders, the stems each formed as the kneeling figure of Ceres, her right foot resting on a cornucopia and her left hand supporting scroll branches each terminating in a plain oval drip-pan and cylindrical socket entwined with swan masks, marked on bases only
    13in. (33cm.) high
    124ozs. (3,867gr.) (2)

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