CIRCA 1795

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A PAIR OF DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1795
Each with a Corinthian column headed by a central gadrooned torch issuing three foliate-wrapped scrolled branches with circular drip-pans and tooled nozzles, above a plinth centred by Medusa masks and foliate-decorated circular base, one branch restored, lacking one drip-pan
18½ in. (47 cm.) high; 5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) diameter, the base (2)

Provenance

By repute, Ambassador David K.E. Bruce and Evangeline Bell Bruce.

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Lot Essay

A related example featuring a virtually identical rosette-headed Corinthian column and a sunflower-decorated stepped plinth is in the château de Fontainebleau and illustrated in G. Henriot, Le Luminaire de la renaissance au XIXème siècle, Paris, 1933, pl.202, no.4, while a further related example is illustrated in C. Bizot, Mobilier Directoire et Empire, Paris, 1976, p.71.

David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (1898-1977) served as ambassador to France from 1949 to 1952, West Germany from 1957 to 1959 and the United Kingdom from 1961 to 1969.

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