A PAIR OF GILTMETAL-MOUNTED GLASS AND CUT-GLASS TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA

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Michael Behrens (1911-1989) was a keen collector who combined a successful career in banking with patronage of the arts. He was patron to many young artists, sculptors, musicians and writers and served on the Council of the Zoological Society and the Royal College of Art. The collection he formed at his home, Culham Court, Henley-on-Thames, was one of superb quality. It was also typical of his eclectic taste that he juxtaposed old and new, and he regularly attended student exhibitions and searched obscure galleries in search of talent. His remarkable collection of furniture, mostly English of the 18th and early 19th Centuries was formed with a discerning eye, and included William Beckford's famous dressing and writing-commode from Fonthill Splendens, attributed to John Channon and sold in these Rooms, 6 July 1989, lot 163 for (£1,100,000: the first piece of English furniture to sell at auction for over one million pounds). Its companion piece is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (W.4:1956). THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE MRS. MICHAEL BEHRENS SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS (LOTS 52-65)

A PAIR OF GILTMETAL-MOUNTED GLASS AND CUT-GLASS TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GILTMETAL-MOUNTED GLASS AND CUT-GLASS TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Early 19th Century
Each with faceted shaft surmounted by upspringing branches hung with droplets and surmounted by a pine-cone finial, each faceted branch with a circular drip-pan hung with drops and needles and with a diamond-cut nozzle and drip-pan, the branches issuing from a diamond-cut stem, on a faceted baluster base, stamped A, B, C & D, the drip-pans and shafts chipped, previously with three further small shafts at the base, replacements and losses
25½ in. (65 cm.) high; 16½ in. (42 cm.) wide (2)

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