A set of four Louis XIV silver candlesticks

WITH MAKER'S MARK OF NICOLAS OUTREBON, PARIS, 1735

Details

A set of four Louis XIV silver candlesticks
with maker's mark of Nicolas Outrebon, Paris, 1735
Each on shaped-circular base and with baluster stem, vase-shaped sockets and detachable nozzles, the bases with ovolo border and chased with a band of shells, husks and strapwork on a quatrefoil strewn matted ground, the stems with pendant husk shoulders and panels of shell and overlaid leaf ornament, the bases and nozzles of each set engraved with a crest, marked under bases and in sockets, the base rim with décharge, each engraved beneath the base with inventory number and scratch weight, 26=10, 29=11, 26=5, 28=13, the nozzles unmarked
203/4in. (25cm.) high
103ozs. (3,211grs.)

The crest is that of Stuart for John, 3rd Earl of Bute, K.G. (1713-1792). (4)

Provenance

Supplied to John, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792).

Lot Essay

These candelsticks are designed in the Louis XIV picturesque manner that evolved from candlestick patterns in the arabesque style issued by Jean Berain (d.1711), and vase-patterns, such as those featured in the Nouveau Livre d'Orfèverie and Nouveau Livre de Tableaux de Portes et Cheminée utiles aux Peintres en Fleurs, issued around 1700 by Daniel Marot (d.1752)

Nicholas Outrebon registered his first mark in 1735, the year the present lot was made. It is known that he worked for François-Thomas Germain as he registered a debt on the former's bankrupcy in 1766. His son Jean-Louis-Dieudonné Outrebon had registered a mark in 1772 and continued the workshop on his father's death in 1779.

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