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A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU CENTERPIECES

SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, EACH STAMPED THOMIRE

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A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU CENTERPIECES
second quarter 19th century, each stamped thomire
Each in the form of a pair of dancing bacchantes holding aloft a tazza with pierced grape vine-cast rim on an oval base cast with putti and a stepped plinth, repairs and subsequent losses to gilding to rims of tazze
23in. (58½cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

The form of these center pieces with dancing bacchantes holding the sacred thyrsus closely relates to candelabra created by Thomire in the 1820's (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, 1986, vol. I, pp.386-387, figs. 5.16.11 and 5.16.14). A similar centerpiece by Thomire was sold Christie's London, 23 March 1989, lot 19.