CIRCA 1810, ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILLIPPE THOMIRE

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND BRONZE TRIPOD BRULE PARFUM
CIRCA 1810, ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILLIPPE THOMIRE
The removable domed, pierced lid with ball finial and elaborate palmette and star decoration between lotus-leaf and foliate arabesques, the bronze bowl supported by lions'-mask voluted brackets, on a spreading canted triangular shaft mounted with torch-bearing maidens standing on a sphinx-supported plinth, on ball feet and sphinx monopodium, the concave-sided triangular plinth with lotus leaves and rosettes
22½ in. (57 cm.) high; 11¼ in. (28.5 cm.) diameter

來源

Acquired from André Mancel, Paris, 19 April 1974.

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

The design of this brûle parfum derives directly from a drawing for a porcelain and ormolu gueridon table by the celebrated architects and ornemanistes C. Percier and P.F.L. Fontaine. It was first illustrated in their Recueil de Décorations Intérieures, Paris, 1801-1812, pl. XXI. A closely related pair, decorated with bronze ornamentation on a steel body, is in the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Prôschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, vol.I, p.362 fig.5.12.1), while another is in Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden (illustrated G. Haase and G. Reinheckel, Kunsthandwerk des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden, 1978, p.157. fig. E.26).

A pair of identical brûles-parfums of this model is at Osterley Park, Middlesex (illustrated in J. Hardy, 'Osterley Park House', Guide Book, 1985, p.34). Further related pairs but with associated candle-branches include those sold at Christie's New York, 22 May 2002, lot 385, as well as those originally from the collection of King Umberto II of Italy, sold Christie's London, 9 December 2004, lot 45.