A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL WHITE MARBLE AND PATINATED-BRONZE TWENTY-FOUR-LIGHT TORCHERE CANDELABRA
02.07.2024 17:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
120000GBP £ 120 000 
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ID 1250835 
Lot 60  | A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL WHITE MARBLE AND PATINATED-BRONZE TWENTY-FOUR-LIGHT TORCHERE CANDELABRA
Estimate value
£ 120 000 – 180 000 
CIRCA 1900-1905, POSSIBLY BY EDWARD F. CALDWELL & CO, NEW YORK, AFTER A DESIGN BY GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI
Each with six foliate-cast candle branches with gadrooned rim, issuing three further branches supporting leaftip cast nozzles, surrounding a central stem issuing six nozzles, the ribbed dish above a stem carved with vine branches and a leaftip collar, the lower stem with fluted section carved with palmettes, flanked by three swans, the tripartite base headed by ram heads joined by laurel wreaths, the frieze carved with classical motifs with scrolling angles, supported by three winged sphynxes on a canted tripartite plinth, the nozzles stamped 'A905' and 'A906' respectively
94 in. (242 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm.) wide; 26 ¾ in. (68 cm.) deep
Provenance
Probably supplied to Mary 'May' Gibson (1875-1959) for the 'Music Room' of Maybrook, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania;
sold in 1956 with Maybrook to John Merriam;
thence by descent at Maybrook until sold, circa 2016.
Literature
W. Morrison & A. Hewitt, The Main Line Country Houses of Philadelphia's Storied Suburb, 1870-1930, New York, 2002, p. 28 (illustrated in the Music Room of Maybrook).
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe | 
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| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Floor lights | 
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe | 
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| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Floor lights | 
| Address of auction | CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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