POSSIBLY RUSSIAN, CIRCA 1815

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A NORTHERN EUROPEAN BRONZE AND ORMOLU CANDELABRA CENTREPIECE
Possibly Russian, circa 1815
With three caryatids supporting the candle sockets about a central ovoid urn, above a triform base with winged chimera to the angles, the finial with three addorsed female figures, later adaptations to the finial and fitted with a lamp-shade, not adapted for electricity
21½in. (54.5cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The candelabrum is conceived as an 'Athenienne' altar-tripod with its thyrsic-finialed vase supported by Egyptian basket-bearing priestess herms, and its plinth supported by Apollo's sacred griffin. This model of caryatic figure also appears on a clock illustrated in Tardy, French Clocks - The World Over, Paris, 1981 (vol. II, p.64).
Its tripod of addorsed carytic nymphs, supporting a thyrsic pine-cone finial, derives from a candlestick pattern that was conceived in the Roman-candelabrum manner and recorded as 'flambeaux a trois figures ' in the 1784 'Journal de commerce' of the Parisian bronzier Francois Remond, while working under direction of the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre (C. Baulez, Le Luminaire de la Princesse Kinsky, L' Estampille/L'Objet d'Art, May 1991, pp.86-99, fig 5).

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