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A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE `APOLLO AND DIANA` CANDELABRA

Lot 27
07.07.2022 17:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 80 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 791827
Lot 27 | A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE 'APOLLO AND DIANA' CANDELABRA
Estimate value
£ 80 000 – 120 000
A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE 'APOLLO AND DIANA' CANDELABRA

BY MATTHEW BOULTON, CIRCA 1778

Each standing figure with an arm raised supporting a palm wrapped three-branch candelabra with gadrooned drip pans and reeded nozzles, on circular concave plinths with beaded and foliate collars, the nozzle inserts probably associated, the nozzles, drip pans and branches variously notched

26 in. (66 cm.) high; 15 in. (38 cm.) wide





Provenance

Almost certainly one of two pairs consigned for sale by Messrs Boulton and Fothergill, Christie and Ansell's, London, 16 May 1778, lot 79 or 124.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

Nicholas Goodison, Matthew Boulton: Ormolu, London, 2002, pp. 184 and 187, and figs. 131.1 and 132.1-2.





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