A PAIR OF GERMAN SILVER HISTORISMUS PRICKET CANDLESTICKS
HANAU, CIRCA 1900
The spirally fluted columns on three upright bear supports, their paws linked, the top with a glass sphere supporting saucer-shaped wells chased with a scrolling foliate band set with coloured pastes and hardstones; also a Victorian electroplated smoker's compendium, circa 1880, based on an 1839 painting by Edwin Landseer, modelled as a macaw on a bar, with a seated spaniel and a begging terrier, all three with hinged heads and coloured glass eyes, on a circular base centred by a striking plate
Candlesticks 13 in. high (33 cm.)
A PAIR OF GERMAN SILVER HISTORISMUS PRICKET CANDLESTICKS
HANAU, CIRCA 1900
The spirally fluted columns on three upright bear supports, their paws linked, the top with a glass sphere supporting saucer-shaped wells chased with a scrolling foliate band set with coloured pastes and hardstones; also a Victorian electroplated smoker's compendium, circa 1880, based on an 1839 painting by Edwin Landseer, modelled as a macaw on a bar, with a seated spaniel and a begging terrier, all three with hinged heads and coloured glass eyes, on a circular base centred by a striking plate
Candlesticks 13 in. high (33 cm.)
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