A pair of Swedish Rannas (red) porphyry candlesticks 19th century

each with a candle-nozzle in the form of a campana vase above a flaring turned stem with leaf cast capital above a gadrooned lower section, on a tripod base in the form of three griffin legs, on a circular base

Some very miniscule chips which are hardly noticeable. A rare model which can be placed immediately.
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Comparative Literature:
Porfyr, Exhibition Catalogue, 15th December 1985-2nd Fenbruary 1986, Bukowskis, Stockholm, Sweden, p. 87, figs. 91 for a similar pair in Bredvads porphyry and an almost identical pair in green Tinguait porphyry reproduced here in fig.1.