A PAIR OF ORMOLU AND BRONZE SEVEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU AND BRONZE SEVEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Each with Egyptian maiden with falcon headdress supporting a foliate urn on her head, issuing four scrolling branches with griffin-ends and terminating in siren-heads with circular drip-pans and tooled urn-shaped nozzles, centred by a baluster shaft with circular drapery drip-pan and conforming nozzle, holding in each arm a torch issuing coiling serpents terminating in tooled drip-pans and urn-shaped nozzles, on a stepped spreading rectangular base headed by Hercules masks with Ceres to the front, Diana to the reverse and maidens to the sides, on a stepped base with foliate claw feet
31½in. (80cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

These female Egyptian figures closely relate to the supporting figures in a design for a console table by Charles Percier of circa 1800 (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et.al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 336, fig. 5.3.4.).
A closely related pair of candelabra was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 7 December 1989, lot 48, and a further related pair was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 11 June 1993, lot 82.

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