A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS

CIRCA 1780

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS
Circa 1780
Each of baluster form with removable bobche with fluted edge and neck, above a bead and leaf-tip shoulder, the reeded body with rams heads, on a flaring beaded socle and square base with incurved corners and leaf-tip upper edge
8in. (22cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

In their overall form, with ram's-masks above a swollen baluster body, these candlesticks are related to the celebrated porphyry vase executed by Pierre-Philippe Thomire (d.1843) in 1819 for Count Nicolas Demidoff (1723-1828), and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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