Live Auction 1887Le Goût Steinitz, I
A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Lot 89

A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed19 October 2007

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each with a draped winged female figure, holding two horn-shaped branches decorated with stylised leaves and eagles, headed by a shaft issuing three hippocampi-shaped branch and decorated with a swan, the square-sectioned base decorated with female figures, on a plinth cast with acanthus and vine leaves
41 in. (104 cm.) high; 14 1/8 in. (36 cm.) wide; 10½ in. (27 cm.) deep (2)

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This stylish and monumental pair of Empire candelabra depicting Victory personified as a winged female figure, incorporate the distinctive feature of winged horses which relate to similar horses in a drawing by the court architects Percier and Fontaine in their influential Recueil de décorations intérieures of 1812. A pair of candelabra in Schloss Ludwigslust incorporating similar winged horses is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 392, fig. 5.17.8.