Sale 8512
New York, Park Avenue
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30 - 31 October 1996
Price realised
USD 12,650
Estimate
A PAIR OF RESTAURATION STYLE ORMOLU AND MALACHITE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA Each with foliate-cast scroll arms and fluted bobêches on an incurving tripartite stem with scroll-cast corinthian capital and foliate-scroll-cast tripod base joined by fruiting garlands on a conforming platform 25½in. (65cm.) high, 11in. (28cm.) wide (2)
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