Live Auction 7745Important European Furniture, Sculpture & Clocks
A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS
Lot 168

A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS

CIRCA 1800, ATTRIBUTED TO ANDREI SCHREIBER, ST. PETERSBURG

Closed9 July 2009

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GBP 1,875

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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS
CIRCA 1800, ATTRIBUTED TO ANDREI SCHREIBER, ST. PETERSBURG
Surrounded by a leaf-wrapped nozzle, on a circular spreading foot cast with palmettes
10 in. (25.5 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

These elegant facetted candlesticks have foliate base mounts identical to those on twin-light candelabra by the St. Petersburg bronzier Andrei Schreiber (1777-1843) and based on this common feature can also be attributed to him.