拍品专文
A closely related pair of candelabra was sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 1 November 1989, lot 51.
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A PAIR OF EMPIRE BRONZE AND ORMOLU FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
细节
A PAIR OF EMPIRE BRONZE AND ORMOLU FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Each with a scantilly-draped winged female figure with braided hair, holding four flaming-torch candle-branches with anthemion bands and flaming tops with later circular drip-pans, the figure shown standing on a globe, on a triangular spreading base decorated with fire-breathing dragons and a youth reaching for a star, on winged lion-paw feet and concave-sided plinth, restorations
34¾in. (88cm.) high (2)
Each with a scantilly-draped winged female figure with braided hair, holding four flaming-torch candle-branches with anthemion bands and flaming tops with later circular drip-pans, the figure shown standing on a globe, on a triangular spreading base decorated with fire-breathing dragons and a youth reaching for a star, on winged lion-paw feet and concave-sided plinth, restorations
34¾in. (88cm.) high (2)
来源
By repute: Given to an Italian-American by a direct descendant of the Russian Imperial Family