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A PAIR OF ORMOLU, BRONZE AND RED GRIOTTE MARBLE FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU, BRONZE AND RED GRIOTTE MARBLE FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Each with winged Nike supporting a fruiting oak-leaf wreath issuing five scrolling foliate candle-branches with flowerhead scrolls, standing on a semi-circular globe with stiff-leaf rim and square plinth with lotus-leaf edge, to the front with a lyre with swan's-head terminals and laurel-wreath, the sides with a winged youth issuing various foliate scrolls, on a lotus-leaf moulded square plinth
37 in. (94 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The Victory figures of these candelabra are derived from a design by Charles Percier for the 1802 furnishings of the boudoir of Josephine Bonaparte at the Château de St. Cloud (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, et.al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. II, p. 346, fig. 5.2.1) and this figure was used by Pierre-Philippe Thomire on several occasions (J. Ottomeyer, op.cit, p. 346, fig. 5.2.2.). A pair of candelabra in the Château de Fontainebleau of closely related form and probably by Thomire was acquired in 1804 for the salon de l'Impératrice (J.P. Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrées sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, p. 156, no. 133). Similar candelabra were sold anonymously in these Rooms, 12 December 1991, lot 31 and at Sotheby's London, 9 December 1994, lot 409.

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