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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE TWIN-BRANCH CANDELABRA
Lot 6

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE TWIN-BRANCH CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1770

Closed2 May 2013

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE TWIN-BRANCH CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1770
In the form of a boy and a girl each holding a vase of flowers issuing lily-branches terminating in turned nozzles, on a turned socle and square base
15 in. (38 cm.) high (2)

Mr. & Mrs. Walter Hayes Burns, the sister of J. P. Morgan, North Mymms Park, Hertfordshire, and thence by descent to
Major General Sir George Burns, KCVO, CB, DSO, OBE, MC, North Mymms Park, Hertfordshire; sold Christie's house sale, 24-26 September 1979, lot 35.

Specialist note

A pair of ormolu candelabra of the same model is at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire (G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, 1974, vol. II, pp. 710-711, ill. 176).