Each on a tripartite base cast with scrolls, grape bunches, and leaves, the stems formed as Bacchic term figures emerging from fluted columns and similarly draped in grapevines, with conforming fluted sconces and removable nozzles, marked on base rims, the nozzles with maker's mark and lion passant
14¹⁄₄ in. (36.2 cm.) high
120 oz. 10 dwt. (3,748 gr.)

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A pair of caryatid candelabra by Paul de Lamerie, 1747/1748, with bases and stems of nearly identical design to the present lot, are in the collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, and are illustrated in P. A. S. Phillips, Paul de Lamerie, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, London, 1935, pl. CLIII. Phillips notes the French influence in their conception and describes them as 'decidedly spectacular and un-English'. The Williamstown candelabra are un-gilded.