An Italian Silver-Mounted and Hardstone-Inlaid Gilt Bronze Candlestick, Early 18th Century, Rome

the triangular base cast with scrolls and applied with silver scallop shells, leaves and heads of cherubim, the stem in the form of an urn and rising to a baluster-shaped column, the drip pan with scalloped border and surmounted by a urn-shaped socket, inlaid with rouge marble plaques.

Compare an identical candlestick from the Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, sold Sotheby's, New York, May 12, 1985, lot 99.