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Lot 49
Pair of Polychrome and Giltwood Altar Candlesticks
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
19th century, hardwood turned standard surmounted by a wide bobeche and single candle cup, with alternating red and green and white painted decoration, and applied gilt to foliate and dentil patterned borders, on a pyramidal base raised on three suppressed ball feet.

HOA 26 in.

The Caroline Faison Antiques Collection, Greensboro, North Carolina

Expected rubbing to painted and gilt surfaces from handling, with area of paint loss, some with touch paint; one with shrinkage crack to base.