Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery
Live Virtual Auction, 11 - 12 October 2021
Oriental Works of Art, Jewellery, Silver and Furniture
Lot Estimate
ZAR 20 000 - 25 000
About this Item
Sheffield & Birmingham, England
A pair of bronze candlesticks, Pierre-Emile Jeannest (1813-1857) for Elkington, Mason & Co, Birmingham, 19th century
each sconce cast with three oval portraits of classical maidens, above a drip-pan engraved with athemions, with a leaf-form column below entwined by three putti, with gargoyle masks, raised on a vase-shaped support, the pierced base centred by oval cartouches of Bacchus, raised on paw feet, impressed FUBD BY ELKINGTON MASON & CO, Jeannest Fecit, 33cm high
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