A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THOMAS W. BAYLECK (LOTS 516-535)

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS
Each cast as triple addorsed female terms with human feet draped with fruit and flower garlands, with vase bobeches cast with lion's heads, on a domed spreading acanthus cast foot
13in. (33cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

These candlesticks are derived from a design by Jean Demosthène Dugourc dated 1790 (Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris) subsequently executed by Pierre Gouthière. (see P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 294). A very similar pair of candlesticks delivered to Marie Antoinette for her cabinet de la Méridienne at Versailles by Claude-Jean Pitoin in 1781 is now in the Wallace Collection (ibid. p. 38).