£95
A pair of late Victorian - early 20th century brass ecclesiastical church floor candle holders / prickets. Each candlestick having a circular dish over a central column, raised stepped circular foot. Each measuring approx. 75cm tall x 23cm in diameter.
Provenance - part of a collection from Netheravon House, in Netheravon, Wiltshire. The house was built after 1734 by Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, on a commanding part of the chalk bluff that overlooks the Avon Valley, to the south of the 11th-century village church and close to where a Roman villa stood. The grounds were laid out by the landscape architect and astronomer Thomas Wright and published in Universal Architecture in 1755 and 1758.
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