Live Auction 5289Christie's Interiors
A PAIR OF GILT BRONZE CANDLESTICKS ADAPTED AS TABLE LAMPS
Lot 144 PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 121-148)

A PAIR OF GILT BRONZE CANDLESTICKS ADAPTED AS TABLE LAMPS

OF REGENCY STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed7 October 2014

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GBP 2,125

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A PAIR OF GILT BRONZE CANDLESTICKS ADAPTED AS TABLE LAMPS
OF REGENCY STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each with a flaming urn candle nozzle above a foliate cast shaft with a triform arrangement of swans standing on rams heads raised up on griffin feet on black marble plinths, fitted for electricity and with cream pleated shades
15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) high, excluding fitment and shade

Specialist note

The tripod candlesticks are designed in the manner of Roman marble candelabrum as popularised by G.B. Piranesi's, Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Rose, 1778 and H. Mose's, Vases, Altars, Paterae, Tripods, candelabra, Sarcophagi etc., London, 1814. They are inspired by the celebrated Farnese antique tripod, which was brought to Naples in the mid 18th century and featured in R. Gargiulo, Racolta de Mumimenti Pui Intteresant Del R. Museo Barbonico, 1825 (pl.39).