1893 Colombian Exposition: A pair of American Silver Nine-light Candelabra, Tiffany & Co., New York, circa 1893

the circular domed base partially lobed and raised on four paw feet headed by large scrolling acanthus leaves spaced by applied grape bunches, the central surmounted by a detachable top comprised of eight scrolling branches and central light all stemming from a ring of running acanthus, the branches terminating in fixed shaped circular drip pans cast with scrolls and campana form sconces chased with spiral fluting, removable conforming nozzles

good condition
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The slender scrolling arms, paw feet, and hourglass stems are very much in Tiffany's house style at this period.  The style probably originated with Charles Grosjean, as on his Chrysanthemum candelabra or those for the Vanderbilt family (John Loring, Magnificent Tiffany Silver, p. 141-142), but these candelabra, designed two years after his death in 1888, show how much the aesthetic had been fully embraced by Tiffany.  It was also to be seen on the "George III Centerpiece" shown at the Columbian Exposition, of which a period photograph was reproduced in Tiffany at the World's Columbian Exposition, Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, 2006, pp. 29, 125.