Sterling Silver Tapersticks by Walter & John Barnard - Antique Victorian (1883)

Description

These exceptional antique Victorian Walter & John Barnard tapersticks, in sterling silver, have a circular rounded form with a shaped figural column.

The cylindrical capital of each silver taperstick is encircled with panels ornamented with chased decorated naturalistic organic textures, forming the corona of a flower.

The capitals surmount circular drip pans, each embellished with scalloped petal designs.

The exceptional cast sterling silver column of each taperstick has been modelled in the form of a woman draped in fabric, holding in one hand a stem emanating from the aforementioned floral designs.

These impressive figural columns surmount swept, domed circular bases ornamented with concave fluted ornamentation in a swirl design below a band of bead decoration.

Each base is further embellished with an embossed undulating band of floral and foliate decoration to a fluted, scalloped rim.

These tapersticks do not have weighted bases.

These impressive Victorian taper candlesticks were crafted by the renowned London silversmiths Walter & John Barnard.

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