Sale 8512
New York, Park Avenue
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30 - 31 October 1996
Price realised
USD 6,325
Estimate
A PAIR OF LOUIS-PHILIPPE ORMOLU SEVEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA circa 1840, stamped Aldre Pignot à Paris Each with central columnar stem and three scroll supports and similar candlearms on a tripartite plinth and scroll feet, drilled for electricity 35½in. (90cm.) high, 17in. (43cm.) wide (2)
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