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A PAIR OF NEO-RENAISSANCE PATINATED BRONZE AND COADE STONE TWENTY-FOUR LIGHT FLOOR CANDELABRA, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description
- bronze, stone
Provenance
Maybrook Mansion, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, built by Henry Clay Gibson in 1881
Catalogue Note
This massive pair of candelabra are inspired by Renaissance models. Specifically, they relate to plates 100 and 532 in Piranesi's Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi disegn. ed incisi dal. Cav. Batta. Piranesi. The present example features the same cranes, sphinxes, and overall form.
This candelabra, however, is unique in that the central shaft is Coade stone. Eleanor Coade established her business at Pedlar's Acre around 1769. Her business was an immediate success and the company produced a vast range of objects for an international client base. The remarkable versatility and durability of her secret recipe for 'Artificial Stone' undoubtedly assisted in the recognition it received and in one of the company's own advertisements they boast that it has 'a property peculiar to itself of resisting the frost and consequently of retaining that sharpness in which it excels every kind of stone sculpture'.