Lot 245
  • 245

A pair of bronze and gilt-bronze candelabra Baltic or Russian, first quarter 19th century

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • each 38cm. high; 1ft. 3in.
each in the form of a winged cherub in drapery supporting two candle-nozzles in each hand on a circular socle casting wih an alternating band by foliage and anthemions, on a leaf cast circular base

Catalogue Note

Comparative Literature:
Igor Sychev, The Russian Chandeliers 1760-1830, Moscow, 2003, p.133, fig. 630, for a pair of candelabra conceived in a similar vein with a cherub holding aloft a candlenozzle in each hand.