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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE TWO-BRANCH CANDELABRA

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE TWO-BRANCH CANDELABRA
Early 19th century
Each with a central reeded shaft of spears with lion mask and military trophy, issuing two scrolling branches with helmet-shaped nozzles, surmounted by a plumed helmet and on a stepped base with canon-balls to the corners and military trophies to the sides
38½in. (98cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

These magnificent Empire candelabra closely relate to a set of four that was supplied to the Emperor at Fontainebleau by Claude Galle in 1807. Further examples of that design are at the hôtel Charost, formerly the palais Pauline Borghese, and with the Duke of Westminster (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 391, fig. 5.17.5). It is interesting to note that a very similar candelabrum that is even more closely related to the offered pair is attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire (op. cit, p. 304, plate XXXVI).

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