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A GEORGE III GILT AND PATINATED-BRONZE CANDELABRUM

Starting price
£ 25 000
Auction dateClassic
08.02.2024 10:30UTC +01:00
Auctioneer
CHRISTIE'S
Event location
United Kingdom, London
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ID 1134584
Lot 86 | A GEORGE III GILT AND PATINATED-BRONZE CANDELABRUM
A GEORGE III GILT AND PATINATED-BRONZE CANDELABRUM

DESIGNED BY JAMES 'ATHENIAN' STUART, CIRCA 1760-65, ATTRIBUTED TO DIEDERICH NICOLAUS ANDERSON, THE BRANCHES LATER AND AFTER A DESIGN BY BENJAMIN LEWIS VULLIAMY

Of Antique 'athenienne' form, the bowl cast with scrolling foliage and flower heads, the gadrooned underside centred by a faun mask, supported by a three female-headed monopodia, joined by two concave-sided guilloche-cast bands, on lion's paws and a spreading anthemion-carved white marble plinth, probably originally with pierced lid and branches issuing from the edge of the bowl, now with filled holes, the brass lid later, surmounted by a later candelabrum with three leaf-cast scrolling branches with acanthus nozzles about a central baluster finial, drilled for electricity

31 ½ in. (80 cm.) high; 13 ½ in. (34.3 cm.) wide





Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 June 1981, lot 6.



Literature

J. Bourne and V. Brett, Lighting in the Domestic Interior, London, 1991, p. 99, fig. 315.
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze, Gilding
Historical era:Georgian period
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps
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