Pair of gilded and cut-glass ‘Sunray’ Candelabra with lyre backs
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Pair of gilded and cut-glass ‘Sunray’ Candelabra with lyre backs
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Pair of gilded and cut-glass ‘Sunray’ Candelabra with lyre backs:
the lyre bearing twin branches with glass candle-cups; with lady’s
face above, surrounded by a sunray of early 19th Century ‘icicle’ prisms; dressed with ‘double star’ prisms, ‘icicle’ pendants and large gilt-mounted pear pendants; the circular bases with spherical stepped knop.
Circa 1860 and restored.
| Height: | 21½" | - | 54.5cm |
| Width: | 12½" | - | 32.0cm |
Glossary Words
'icicle' pendant
Tapered cut-glass pendant with multi-facetted cutting, in the shape of an icicle.
'double star' prisms
Round cut-glass prisms with star-cuttings on both sides. One of the finest of prisms, generally used on Regency and later chandeliers by Perry & Co.
