Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
Auction Closed
April 16, 08:57 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A PAIR OF ENGLISH SILVER-GILT THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA AFTER A MODEL BY PAUL DE LAMERIE, GARRARD & CO. LTD., LONDON, 1975
in Rococo Revival style, cast with grapevine and shells, the stems formed as Bacchic caryatids supporting detachable tops, the sconces also supported by caryatids
marked throughout
274 oz 5 dwt
8534 g
height 22½ in.
57.2 cm
A pair of candelabra of this model by Paul de Lamerie, 1747-8, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no 58.719.20, gift of George D. Widener and Mrs. Eleanor Widener Dixon, 1958.
The same figures of Bacchus appear on a pair of two-light candelabra, also 1747, from the collection of Crichton Brothers, illus. Philip A.S. Phillips, Paul de Lamerie, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, p. 110, pl. cliii.