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• Auction House:
  Cordy's
• Sale Name:
  January 2014 Antique and Art Auction
• Sale Date:
  21 Jan 2014 ~ 10am (NZ time) (Lots 1 - 221)
  21 Jan 2014 ~ 5pm (NZ time) (Lots 230 - 590)
• Lot #:
  519
• Lot Description:
  An outstanding and important Colza ormolu standard lamp
  the neo-classical five branch lamp modelled with shell shaped nozzles and embellished with acanthus leaf finial raised on a tall fluted tapering column with acanthus capital issuing from a gun-barrel plinth base with acanthus knop, raised on a circular plinth decorated with anthemion supported on three lion's paw feet, the gun barrel base with an affixed heraldic coat-of-arms of the Watkin's family (Wales).
• Notes:
  The coat-of-arms surmounted by the twin crests: a dragon's head erased, a hand grasped in its mouth; and a lion rampant above a ducal coronet. The Watkin's motto, 'Pen-aur-y-Chalon-Wir', (A Golden Head and True Heart). Height 2360.
• Estimate:
  NZ$3,500 - 3,500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Furniture

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