A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRUM
MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1856
On shaped oval base set with two maenads, one playing a mandolin, and bacchic putti, the baluster stem with a knop of musical putti, the leaf-capped scroll branches applied with serpents and hung with ewers and fish, each terminating in a winged putto supporting a vase-shaped socket and circular waxpan, with similar central light, the base applied twice with a vacant cartouche with crown above, marked on base, stem, one branch, sockets and cartouches, the central finial apparently unmarked, with weighted base
34½ in. (87.6 cm.) high; 468 ozs. 10 dwt. (14,581 gr.) gross weight
A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRUM
MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1856
On shaped oval base set with two maenads, one playing a mandolin, and bacchic putti, the baluster stem with a knop of musical putti, the leaf-capped scroll branches applied with serpents and hung with ewers and fish, each terminating in a winged putto supporting a vase-shaped socket and circular waxpan, with similar central light, the base applied twice with a vacant cartouche with crown above, marked on base, stem, one branch, sockets and cartouches, the central finial apparently unmarked, with weighted base
34½ in. (87.6 cm.) high; 468 ozs. 10 dwt. (14,581 gr.) gross weight
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