A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL WHITE MARBLE AND PATINATED-BRONZE TWENTY-FOUR-LIGHT TORCHERE CANDELABRA

Lot 60
02.07.2024 17:00UTC +00:00
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£ 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
A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL WHITE MARBLE AND PATINATED-BRONZE TWENTY-FOUR-LIGHT TORCHERE CANDELABRA
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).
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