A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI BRONZE AND ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA, each with a classical female figure wearing loose flowing drapery leaning slightly back, one looking left, the other right, and holding sprays of lily and roses incorporating the nozzles, the square stepped plinths panelled with blued steel and mounted with acanthus foliage plaques bordered by ribbon-tied overlapping laurel, drilled and fitted for electricity | Christie's

Lot 56

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI BRONZE AND ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA, each with a classical female figure wearing loose flowing drapery leaning slightly back, one looking left, the other right, and holding sprays of lily and roses incorporating the nozzles, the square stepped plinths panelled with blued steel and mounted with acanthus foliage plaques bordered by ribbon-tied overlapping laurel, drilled and fitted for electricity

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI BRONZE AND ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA, each with a classical female figure wearing loose flowing drapery leaning slightly back, one looking left, the other right, and holding sprays of lily and roses incorporating the nozzles, the square stepped plinths panelled with blued steel and mounted with acanthus foliage plaques bordered by ribbon-tied overlapping laurel, drilled and fitted for electricity
45in. (114cm.) high, excluding fittings (2)

Lot Essay

Very similar bronze figures appear on a set of four candelabra (F.142-145) and a pair of candelabra (F.146 and F.147) in the Wallace Collection, illustrated F. J. B. Watson, Catalogue, London, 1956, pl. 18

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