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    7 July 2005

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    • A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU AND W
    Lot 433

    A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA

    LATE 18TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    GBP 14,400

    Estimate

    GBP 12,000 - GBP 18,000

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    A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA
    Late 18th Century
    Each with central leaf-wrapped ball and vase-shaped baluster stem issuing scrolling foliate branches with vase-shaped nozzles and surmounted by a leaf-wrapped vase finial, above a waisted socle and circular spreading foot with spirally turned edge and square plinth, adapted in height with consequential replacements, including the egg-and-dart cast disk above the sphere
    17¾ in. (45 cm.) high (2)

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