BY ELKINGTON, MASON AND COMPANY, BIRMINGHAM, CIRCA 1870, DESIGNED BY PIERRE-EMILE JEANNEST

Name: A PAIR OF VICTORIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER-PLATED THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Brand: BY ELKINGTON, MASON AND COMPANY, BIRMINGHAM, CIRCA 1870, DESIGNED BY PIERRE-EMILE JEANNEST
Price: 4000.00 GBP
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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER-PLATED THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

BY ELKINGTON, MASON AND COMPANY, BIRMINGHAM, CIRCA 1870, DESIGNED BY PIERRE-EMILE JEANNEST

In the orientalist taste, each on circular rockwork base featuring a male and a female figure feeding a child, sitting on a large rock, the stem formed of a banana tree with large leaves emerging from the base, with three branches applied with fruit tendrils, the conical sockets formed of fluted leaves and with detachable liners, engraved on back with 1870-30-5, marked underneath
17¹⁄₄ in. (44 cm.) high

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The design for these candelabra was conceived by the French modeller Pierre-Emile Jeannest (1813-1857), who worked for Elkington, and whose pieces were successfully presented at the London 1851 Great Exhibition. Jeannest was the son of a Paris sculptor who trained under Delaroche. His designs were found to be highly suggestive as described in the Art-Union of 1848. He designed the 1854 Warwick Races cup, a sculptural model of a meeting between of Queen Henrietta Maria (1609-1669) and Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619-1682), the great Civil War military commander and nephew of King Charles I, near Stratford-upon-Avon in 1643, which was sold at Christie's, London, 18 April 2023, lot 167.