Lot 238
  • 238

A pair of gilt-bronze and white marble five-light candelabra circa 1890

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • height 40 ½ in.
  • 103 cm
each in the form of flower-filled vases issuing five gilt-bronze stalks of day lilies, with gilt-bronze intertwined snakes-form handles.

Catalogue Note

The present pair of candelabra are a copy of a model, circa 1780, now in the Jones Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. See: H. Ottomeyer/P. Proschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol. I. p. 259, fig. 4.7.12.