Lot 142
142
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA
Each with a scantily-draped maiden holding aloft an urn issuing three fluted branches with ribbon ties and swags of foliage on a cylindrical entrelac base
23 in. (58.5 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Alice Tully, sold Christie's New York, 26-28 October 1994, lot 140 ($19,550).
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The maiden figures of these candelabra are virtually identical to those on a pair of Louis XVI candleticks acquired by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild which are now at Waddesdon Manor. They are discussed by G. de Bellaigue in The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Fribourg, 1974, vol. II, p. 706, no. 174. A further pair, but without the floral garlands between the branches, was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 19 May 1983, lot 32.

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