A pair of Regency ormolu and bronze, cut-glass hung candelabra circa 1815

the leaf-cast twin branches with lustre-festooned leaf-cast nozzles, centred on reeded shafts with double palm spray lustre pendants over three panther-headed monopodia, on circular platforms, square plinths with winged paw feet,

In country house condition. Both the drip-pans and nozzles drilled for electricity. About thirteen entire lustre drops missing. Possibly with small replacements to glass elements as there are variations in dimensions to the drops. General characteristic chips to glass including chips to nearly all of the tips. One stem loose and will need tightening. One nozzle loose and will need tightening. Some tarnishing and oxidisation.
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The base on the offered lot closely relates to an etching by the architect Charles Heathcote Tatham representing an ancient Roman marble tripod published in Etchings of Ancient Ornamental Architecture drawn from the Originals in Rome and Other Parts of Italy during the years 1794, 1795, and 1796, 1799. The same etching also provided the inspiration for a table designed by Thomas Hope, illustrated in Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pl.15, fig. 1.

A mahogany tripod stand based on Hope`s design, formerly in the collection of the Duke of Newcastle at Clumber, Nottinghamshire, and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, is illustrated in Margaret Jourdain, Regency Furniture, rev.ed., 1965, p.21, fig. 21