BY THOMIRE À PARIS

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A LOUIS-PHILIPPE ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS CENTREPIECE
By Thomire à Paris
The circular scalloped stepped dish with diamond-cut fields divided by fan-shaped fields, above a fruiting vine rim carried by two maidens wearing a lion-pelt and a vine wreath and holding a thyrsus staff, on a circular stepped plinth with a central bacchic trophy of an amphora and further lion-pelt and grapes, above a foliate rim and a fruiting and foliate wreath, stamped THOMIRE APARIS, with plugged holes to the base, possibly lacking an additional central element
20½in. (51.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Founded by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, this celebrated firm executed several dancing figures supporting a glass dish were a recurrent feature in the oeuvre of Thomire à Paris. Thomire executed several similar maiden-supported objects, such as a candelabrum, dated circa 1825, which is part of a surtout-de-table now in the Fine Art Museum, San Fancisco (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 387, fig. 5.16.14.) Two further related stands with identical maidens, forming part of a garniture de table were sold anonymously in these Rooms, 12 December 1991, lot 17.

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