Pair of Figural Candelabrum: Each with seven candle holders extending from scrolled arms on a shaft issuing from a cornucopia held aloft by maidens standing on cylindrical pedestals with applied acanthus-leaf decoration, on stepped abacus-shaped bases.
Height: 24¼ inches

PAIR OF SILVERED-BRASS SEVEN-LIGHT FIGURAL CANDELABRUM

Possibly Henry N. Hooper & Co.

English or Boston c.1850

Each with seven candle holders extending from scrolled arms on a shaft issuing from a cornucopia held aloft by maidens standing on cylindrical pedestals on stepped bases.

Height: 24¼ inches

The five-light version of this candelabrum is illustrated in the 1858 Hooper catalogue as #580 and states that a three-light version is available as #581.

Reference: H. Parrott Bacot, Nineteenth Century Lighting, Candle-powered Devices: 1783-1883, (West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1987) page 140.

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