A brass six branch candelabrum

A brass six branch candelabrum, comprising twenty four parts, 19in high. Provenance: Siegfied Sassoon and thence by descent to the present owner In Sassoon's Collected Poems 1908-1956 (Faber and Faber, enlarged edition 1961) there is a poem entitled Cleaning the Candelabrum which begins: 'While cleaning my old six-branched candelabrum (Which disconnects in four and twenty parts) I think how other hands its brass have brightened And wonder what was happening in their hearts …'