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A related pair of candelabra at Fontainebleau is illustrated in J.-P. Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrés souls le Premier Empire, Paris, p. 153, pl. 130.
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A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE THREE-BRANCH CANDLEABRA
Each modelled as a classically-draped maiden bearing a candlebranch issuing three further branches with leaf-wrapped nozzles and drip-pans, around a central chain-hung bacchic thyrsus surmounted by a pine-cone finial, on turned stiff-leaf moulded bases hung with chains, on a square grey marble plinth, lacking one drip-pan
23 in. (58.5 cm.) high (2)
Each modelled as a classically-draped maiden bearing a candlebranch issuing three further branches with leaf-wrapped nozzles and drip-pans, around a central chain-hung bacchic thyrsus surmounted by a pine-cone finial, on turned stiff-leaf moulded bases hung with chains, on a square grey marble plinth, lacking one drip-pan
23 in. (58.5 cm.) high (2)