An American Silver Nine-Light Candelabrum, Tiffany & Co., New York, circa 1895

raised on four shell feet, the square base applied with chrysanthemum blossoms and with openwork cartouches of lattice centered by flowerheads at corners, the bulbous square stem with conforming lattice panels and supporting removable central light and leaf-capped scroll branches, the sockets applied with flowerheads and removable nozzles with chrysanthemum blossoms at edges, base engraved with foliate script monogram MET, marked on underside and numbered 6791-9966

possibly missing waiter to raise central light, splits on two corners where stem meets base, otherwise good condition
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