LATE 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE-STYLE LARGE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE SEVEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA
LATE 20TH CENTURY
Each modelled as a Victory on a foliate-cast plinth, applied with
cornucopiae and a harp surrounded by palmettes and acanthus, the figure holding a laurel wreath, issuing seven foliate-cast scrolling arms
54 in. (137 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

The design of these majestic candelabra, with winged figures of Victory holding aloft the candlearms, probably derives from the celebrated drawing in an album of designs by Percier and Fontaine in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (illustrated in M.L. Myers, French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century, New York, 1992, cat. 98, pp. 157-8). One particular sheet features a closely related winged Victory candelabrum, and an inscription indicates that this and other pieces on the sheet were destined for Empress Josephine's boudoir at Château Saint-Cloud, thus establishing a strong connection between Percier and Fontaine and the design of the closely related candelabra supplied to Napoleon I for Château Saint-Cloud sold Christie's New York, 22 October 2003, lot 730.

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