Property from the Estate of JEWEL GARLICK

A PAIR OF DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE-MOUNTED PARIS PORCELAIN AND WHITE MARBLE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE-MOUNTED PARIS PORCELAIN AND WHITE MARBLE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
late 18th century
Each with a porcelain vessel decorated with vignettes depicting frolicking putti within floral garlands and reeds fitted with a beaded lappet-cast collar issuing acanthus-cast S-shaped spiral-fluted branches alternating with scrolling paterae and ending in beaded engine-turned bobêches, centering a torchère en flambeau entwined with a serpent on tripartite supports ending in hairy cloven feet joined by an undertier, on an incurved triangular base and waisted turned socle on bun feet
30in. (76cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

A pair of virtually identical candelabra in Schloss Fasanerie, Fulda, is illustrated in P. Julien, 'Fasanerie', Connaissance des Arts, November 1965, p. 110. The design of the candlearms with their scrolling foliage, spiralling serpent and flambeau finials relates to designs for girandoles from the 1780's (see H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, 1986, vol. I, p. 266, fig. 4.9.5 - 4.9.6). A related bras de lumière by Andre-Antoine Ravrio supplied in 1804 for Fontainebleau is illustrated in J-P. Samoyault, Pendules et Bronzes d'Ameublement entre sous le Premier Empire, 1989, p. 131, fig. 97.