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A pair of hand-painted tin-glazed earthenware candlesticks of tall, tapering square-section form. Each vessel rises from a broad tripartite base with three scrolled feet, terminating in a flared square top with a central sconce. The polychrome decoration is rendered in the Italianate Raffaellesco style, featuring intricate foliate scrolls, floral sprays, and geometric borders in a palette of cobalt blue, ochre yellow, iron red, and green against a white ground. The edges and architectural scrolls are further defined by blue linework and gilt-metal effect detailing to the upper rims. The underside of one foot is hand-painted with dark pigment marks reading / 882 | ii / 7?
Height: 23 cm.
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