Thick white marble rectangular base. Molded metal stand: Child figure with wings catching bird to breast, crystal cut pendants hang from oval ring in shape of grape vine near top. Crystals cut with star and flower design.
Rectangular white marble base. Ornately cast gilded bronze stem enhanced with scroll-shaped leaves, birds, blossoms and snails. An oval-shaped cast brass collar surmounts the stem with flat glass crystal prisms.
Girandole candlesticks featuring an Elizabethen couple; adapted to burn oil by the insertion of a peg lamp, which is a heavy ribbed glass reservoir situated behind the two-part crystal prisms. A glass peg was sized to fit the socket originally meant for a candle.
Width, depth are for base of candlesticks. Diameter given is for opening of globe top. Given height includes glass globe. Height without globe is 15.5'.
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2022-01-28
Object ID
W.1989.089.001
Notes
Globes missing from two of the three girandoles. Deed of gift credits donors with giving a pair of girandoles. Deed of gift cites girandoles as both having globes.
Credit
Mrs. Frank (Dorothy) Skilton, Mrs. Willard (Virginia) Workman
